Eduard Weyr

Eduard Weyr ( born June 22, 1852 in Prague, † July 23, 1903 in Záboří nad Labem ) was a Czech mathematician.

Life

Edward was a son of František Weyr, who was born in 1820 in Náchod and from 1855 was a mathematics teacher at a school in Prague; the other son was Emil Weyr. Edward attended the school where his father worked. He then studied at the Polytechnic and later at the Karl- Ferdinand University. Then went to the University of Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1873 ( "On algebraic space curves "). Then he studied under Charles Hermite and Joseph Serret. Next we went to Prague. In 1881 he became a professor. 1885/6 he trained at Leopold Kronecker and Karl Weierstrass on. His grave stone is located at Olšany Cemetery in Prague.

Work

His mathematical publications, primarily on the projective geometry and differential geometry, although he also worked in the areas of linear algebra, matrix and Hypercomplex Number Systems.

In 1875 he proved that the general solution of the differential equation Riccatischen can be expressed using three well-known solutions.