Edmund Hess

Adolph Edmund Hess, also Hess, ( born February 17, 1843 in Marburg, † December 24, 1903 ) was a German mathematician who dealt with polytopes.

Hess made ​​1860 a high school in Marburg and in 1866 at the University of Marburg his doctorate with a thesis on gas flow through a small opening. He was professor of mathematics ( geometry) at the University of Marburg.

He published a series of papers on regular polytopes and discovered some new, among other things, he listed the 10 regular star- polytopes ( star body ) on. New among them included the penetration of ten tetrahedra penetration of five tetrahedra penetration of five dice, penetration of five octahedra.

He issued the Krystallometrie by Johann Friedrich Christian Hessel 1897, for Ostwald's classic.

In 1888 he became a member of the Leopoldina.

Writings

  • About the regular polytopes of a higher kind, Proceedings of the Society for the promotion of the whole science in Marburg, 1885, pp. 31-57
  • On the number and position of the images of a point at a corner forming three plane mirrors, Proceedings of the Society for the promotion of the whole science in Marburg 1888
  • About the Archimedean polyhedra of a higher kind, Kassel 1878
  • Introduction to the theory of the ball pitch: with particular reference to its application to the theory of uniform and extensive surface area of the same square polyhedron, Leipzig: Teubner 1883
  • About the same time the same square and equal area polyhedra, Proceedings of the Society for the promotion of the whole science in Marburg 1876
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