Julius Weingarten (2 March 1836 – 16 June 1910) was a
German
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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 ...
. He received his doctorate in 1864 from
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university i ...
.
He made some important contributions to the
differential geometry of surfaces
In mathematics, the differential geometry of surfaces deals with the differential geometry of smooth surfaces with various additional structures, most often, a Riemannian metric.
Surfaces have been extensively studied from various perspectives ...
, such as the
Weingarten equations The Weingarten equations give the expansion of the derivative of the unit normal vector to a surface in terms of the first derivatives of the position vector of a point on the surface. These formulas were established in 1861 by the German mathematic ...
.
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19th-century German mathematicians
1836 births
1910 deaths
20th-century German mathematicians
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