Alfred Clebsch

Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch ( born January 19, 1833 in Königsberg, † November 7, 1872 in Göttingen ) was a German mathematician who made ​​significant contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory to made ​​.

Life

Clebsch studied from 1850 onwards mathematics at the Albertina in Königsberg. Among his teachers there was one in particular Otto Hesse, who in turn was a student of Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. In 1854 he received his doctorate with the work Concerning the motion of an ellipsoid in a fluid there. Clebsch then worked from 1854 in Berlin as a teacher at various schools. At the University of Berlin, he habilitated in 1858 of Mathematical Physics. In the fall of Clebsch accepted an appointment as professor of analytical mechanics at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe, where he worked from 1858 to 1863. In 1863 he became a full professor in Giessen, then in 1868 in Göttingen, where he died of diphtheria in the Office of the Rector in 1872 at the age of only 39 years.

His collaboration with Paul Gordan led to the development of the Clebsch -Gordan coefficients from the representation theory of the rotation group, which find wide application in quantum mechanics. As the center of a separate school of algebraic geometry he developed the ideas of Bernhard Riemann on the application of geometric function theory further.

Together with Carl Gottfried Neumann in 1868 he founded the mathematical journal Mathematical Annals, which has long been one of the world's most prestigious mathematical journals.

The grave of Clebsch located on the St. Bartholomew Cemetery in Göttingen. After 1960, the tomb was a long time in poor and incomplete state. 2006, the grave stone was restored, the part was re- created on the scroll in a simplified form. The modern medallion Thomas Duttenhoefer created based on the original 2006. On 23 May 2006, the inauguration took place.

Writings

  • Theory of elasticity of solid bodies. Teubner, Leipzig ( 1862)
  • With Paul Gordan: Theory of Abelian functions. Leipzig ( 1866)
  • Theory of binary algebraic forms. Leipzig ( 1872)
  • Théorie de l' elasticite the Corps Solid. Traduite par Barré de Saint- Venant et Flamant, avec des notes étendues de Saint -Venant. Dunod, Paris ( 1883)
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