Alexander Wilhelm von Brill (20 September 1842 – 18 June 1935)
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 ...
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Born in
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse ...
,
Hesse
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, Brill was educated at the
University of Giessen
University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von ...
, where he earned his
doctorate
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under supervision of
Alfred Clebsch
Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833 – 7 November 1872) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Berlin. ...
. He held a chair at the
University of Tübingen
The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-W� ...
, where
Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (, ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical p ...
was among his students.
In 1933, he joined the
National Socialist Teachers League
The National Socialist Teachers League (German: , NSLB), was established on 21 April 1929. Its original name was the Organization of National Socialist Educators. Its founder and first leader was former schoolteacher Hans Schemm, the Gauleiter ...
as one of the first members from Tübingen.
The
London Science Museum contains
sliceform objects prepared by Brill and
Felix Klein
Christian Felix Klein (; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the associations between geometry and grou ...
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Selected publications
''Vorlesungen über ebene algebraische Kurven und Funktionen.'' 1925.*''Vorlesungen über allgemeine Mechanik.'' 1928.
*''Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Mechanik raumerfüllender Massen.'' 1909.
*''Graphische Darstellungen aus der reinen und angewandten Mathematik.'' 1894.
*with
Max Noether
Max Noether (24 September 1844 – 13 December 1921) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the f ...
''Über algebraische Funktionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie.'' Mitt. Göttinger Akad.1873 and their article with the same name in the Mathematischen Annalen Bd.7, 1874
Online*with Max Noether
''Die Entwicklung der Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen in älterer und neuerer Zeit.'' Jahresbericht DMV 1894.''Das Relativitätsprinzip.''Teubner 1912.
* ''Über Kepler's Astronomia nova.'' Stuttgart 1930. (15 pp.)
See also
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Brill–Noether theory
In algebraic geometry, Brill–Noether theory, introduced by , is the study of special divisors, certain divisors on a curve that determine more compatible functions than would be predicted. In classical language, special divisors move on the cur ...
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Chasles–Cayley–Brill formula
In algebraic geometry, the Chasles–Cayley–Brill formula, also known as the Cayley–Brill formula, states that a correspondence ''T'' of valence ''k'' from an algebraic curve ''C'' of genus ''g'' to itself has ''d'' + ''e'' +&nb ...
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Discriminant of an algebraic number field
In mathematics, the discriminant of an algebraic number field is a numerical invariant that, loosely speaking, measures the size of the ( ring of integers of the) algebraic number field. More specifically, it is proportional to the squared vol ...
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1842 births
1935 deaths
19th-century German mathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
Technical University of Munich faculty
University of Giessen alumni
University of Tübingen faculty
Scientists from Darmstadt
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