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Hermann Cäsar Hannibal Schubert (22 May 1848 – 20 July 1911)
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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Schubert was one of the leading developers of
enumerative geometry
In mathematics, enumerative geometry is the branch of algebraic geometry concerned with counting numbers of solutions to geometric questions, mainly by means of intersection theory.
History
The problem of Apollonius is one of the earliest examp ...
, which considers those parts of
algebraic geometry that involve a finite number of solutions. In 1874, Schubert won a prize for solving a question posed by
Zeuthen
Zeuthen is a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg in Germany.
Geography
It is located near the southeastern Berlin city limits on the western shore of the Dahme River and the Zeuthener See. It borders Eichwalde in the ...
.
Schubert calculus
In mathematics, Schubert calculus is a branch of algebraic geometry introduced in the nineteenth century by Hermann Schubert, in order to solve various counting problems of projective geometry (part of enumerative geometry). It was a precursor of ...
was named after him.
Schubert tutored
Adolf Hurwitz at the Realgymnasium Andreanum in
Hildesheim
Hildesheim (; nds, Hilmessen, Hilmssen; la, Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the L ...
,
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
, and arranged for Hurwitz to study under
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 ...
at University.
See also
* Schubert cycle or
Schubert variety In algebraic geometry, a Schubert variety is a certain subvariety of a Grassmannian, usually with singular points. Like a Grassmannian, it is a kind of moduli space, whose points correspond to certain kinds of subspaces ''V'', specified using line ...
*
Schubert polynomial In mathematics, Schubert polynomials are generalizations of Schur polynomials that represent cohomology classes of Schubert cycles in flag varieties. They were introduced by and are named after Hermann Schubert.
Background
described the history ...
Publications
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References
*Werner Burau and Bodo Renschuch, "Ergänzungen zur Biographie von Hermann Schubert," (Complements to the biography of Hermann Schubert,) ''Mitt. Math. Ges. Hamb.'' 13, pp. 63–65 (1993), ISSN 0340-4358.
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1848 births
1911 deaths
19th-century German mathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
Algebraic geometers
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