Alfred Enneper

Alfred Enneper ( born June 14, 1830 in Barmen, † March 24, 1885 in Hannover ) was a German mathematician who has been dealing with differential geometry.

Enneper his doctorate in 1856 at the University of Göttingen, where he previously was a student of Carl Friedrich Gauss. In 1859 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen and in 1870 associate professor in Göttingen.

Alfred Enneper gave in 1864 about the same time as Karl Weierstrass (1866 ), numerous new examples of minimal surfaces with the so-called Enneper - Weierstrass construction ( or Enneper - Weierstrass parameterization ), including the Enneperfläche, one named after Enneper minimal surface. A global form of Enneper - Weierstrass construction comes from Robert Osserman. Behind the design is a Gauss map ( with subsequent stereographic projection ) of the associated Riemann surface and the rate that exactly at this minimal surfaces Gaußabbildung is holomorphic.