Aurel Voss (7 December 1845 – 19 April 1931) was a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

, best known today for his contributions to

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and

mechanics Mechanics (from Ancient Greek: μηχανική, ''mēkhanikḗ'', "of machines") is the area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects. Forces applied to objects r ...

. He served as president of the

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for the 1898 term. He was a professor at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's List of universities in Germany, sixth-oldest u ...

during 1902–1923. He became

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in 1923. In 1880, Voss published a version of the

contracted Bianchi identities In general relativity and tensor calculus, the contracted Bianchi identities are: : \nabla_\rho _\mu = \nabla_ R where _\mu is the Ricci tensor, R the scalar curvature, and \nabla_\rho indicates covariant differentiation. These identities are na ...

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* {{Germany-mathematician-stub 1845 births 1931 deaths 19th-century German mathematicians 20th-century German mathematicians People from Altona, Hamburg Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich