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Alexander von Brill

Alexander Wilhelm von Brill (20 September 1842 – 18 June 1935)[1]: 17  was a German mathematician.

Alexander von Brill

(1842-09-20)20 September 1842

Darmstadt

18 June 1935(1935-06-18) (aged 92)

Tübingen

German

University of Giessen

Mathematics

University of Tübingen

Alfred Clebsch

Sebastian Finsterwalder
Max Planck

Biography[edit]

Born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Brill was educated at the University of Giessen, where he earned his doctorate under supervision of Alfred Clebsch. He held a chair at the University of Tübingen, where Max Planck was among his students.


In 1874, Max Noether and von Brill introduced the study of special divisors known as Brill–Noether theory.[2]: vii 


In 1933, he joined the National Socialist Teachers League as one of the first members from Tübingen.[1]: 21 

Legacy[edit]

The London Science Museum contains sliceform objects prepared by Brill and Felix Klein.[3]

von Brill, Alexander; Noether, Max (1874). . Mathematische Annalen. 7 (2): 269–316. doi:10.1007/BF02104804. JFM 06.0251.01. S2CID 120777748. Retrieved 2009-08-22.

"Ueber die algebraischen Functionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie"

[4]

Vorlesungen über ebene algebraische Kurven und Funktionen. 1925.

Vorlesungen über allgemeine Mechanik. 1928.

[5]

Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Mechanik raumerfüllender Massen. 1909.

Graphische Darstellungen aus der reinen und angewandten Mathematik. 1894.

with : Über algebraische Funktionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie. Mitt. Göttinger Akad.1873, and their article with the same name in the Mathematischen Annalen Bd.7, 1874, Online

Max Noether

with Max Noether:

Die Entwicklung der Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen in älterer und neuerer Zeit. Jahresbericht DMV 1894.

Teubner 1912.[6]

Das Relativitätsprinzip.

Über Kepler's Astronomia nova. Stuttgart 1930. (15 pp.)

Brill–Noether theory

Chasles–Cayley–Brill formula

Discriminant of an algebraic number field

O'Connor, John J.; , "Alexander von Brill", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

Robertson, Edmund F.

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