Emil Weyr

Emil Weyr
Born (1848-07-01)1 July 1848
Prague, Bohemia
Died 25 January 1894(1894-01-25) (aged 45)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Nationality Austrian
Alma mater University of Prague, Ph.D. 1870
Universität Leipzig, Dr. phil. 1869
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Vienna
Thesis Vier gedruckte Abhandlungen aus den Sitzungsberichten der Wiener Akademie[1]
Doctoral advisor Otto Wilhelm Fiedler[1]
Carl Gottfried Neumann
Wilhelm Scheibner
Doctoral students Alfred Tauber
Wilhelm Wirtinger

Emil Weyr (1 July 1848 – 25 January 1894) was an Austrian mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry.[2]

Born in Prague, Weyr attended the Prague Polytechnic, where he was taught by Heinrich Durège and Otto Wilhelm Fiedler.[2]

Selected publications

  • Theorie der mehrdeutigen geometrischen Elementargebilde und der algebraischen Curven und Flächen als deren Erzeugnisse. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 1869.
  • Geometrie der räumlichen Erzeugnisse ein-zwei-deutiger Gebilde. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 1870.
  • Die Elemente der projectivischen Geometrie. Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller. 1883.
  • Über die Geometrie der alten Ægypter. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn. 1884.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Emil Weyr at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. 1 2 O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Emil Weyr", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .


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