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

Alexander von Brill
Born(1842-09-20)20 September 1842
Died18 June 1935(1935-06-18) (aged 92)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Giessen
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Tübingen
Doctoral advisorAlfred Clebsch
Doctoral studentsSebastian Finsterwalder
Max Planck

Biography

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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

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

Selected publications

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  • von Brill, Alexander; Noether, Max (1874). "Ueber die algebraischen Functionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie". Mathematische Annalen. 7 (2): 269–316. doi:10.1007/BF02104804. JFM 06.0251.01. S2CID 120777748. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
  • Vorlesungen über ebene algebraische Kurven und Funktionen. 1925.[4]
  • 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 Max Noether: Über algebraische Funktionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie. Mitt. Göttinger Akad.1873[permanent dead link], and their article with the same name in the Mathematischen Annalen Bd.7, 1874, Online[permanent dead link]
  • with Max Noether: Die Entwicklung der Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen in älterer und neuerer Zeit. Jahresbericht DMV 1894.[permanent dead link]
  • Das Relativitätsprinzip. Teubner 1912.[6]
  • Über Kepler's Astronomia nova. Stuttgart 1930. (15 pp.)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b E. Schönhardt (Jan 1936). "Alexander v. Brill". Deutsche Mathematik. 1 (1): 17–22.
  2. ^ Eduardo Casas-Alvero (2019). Algebraic Curves, the Brill and Noether way. Universitext. Springer. ISBN 9783030290153.
  3. ^ "Abril 2012: Superficies seccionadas I". DivulgaMAT (in Spanish). 3 April 2012. Archived from the original on 3 Feb 2015.
  4. ^ Emch, Arnold (1926). "Review: Vorlesungen über ebene algebraische Kurven und Funktionen by Alexander Brill" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (3): 292–294. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1926-04217-8.
  5. ^ Robertson, H. P. (1932). "Review: Vorlesungen über allgemeine Mechanik by A. Brill" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38, Part 1 (1): 17–18. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05303-4.
  6. ^ Wilson, E. B. (1913). "Review: Das Relativitätsprinzip von A. Brill" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (6): 321–322. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1913-02346-2.
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