Alfred Clebsch
Alfred Clebsch | |
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 Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch | |
| Born | 19 January 1833 |
| Died | 7 November 1872 (aged 39) |
| Nationality | Prussian |
| Alma mater | University of Königsberg |
| Known for | Clebsch graph Clebsch representation Clebsch surface Clebsch–Gordan coefficients Legendre–Clebsch condition |
| Awards | Prix Poncelet (1868)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Franz Ernst Neumann |
| Doctoral students | Gottlob Frege Alexander von Brill |
Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833 – 7 November 1872) was a German
Karlsruhe. His collaboration with Paul Gordan in Giessen led to the introduction of Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for spherical harmonics, which are now widely used in quantum mechanics
.
Together with Carl Neumann at Göttingen, he founded the mathematical research journal Mathematische Annalen in 1868.
In 1883, Saint-Venant translated Clebsch's work on elasticity into French and published it as Théorie de l'élasticité des Corps Solides.
Books by A. Clebsch
- Vorlesungen über Geometrie (Teubner, Leipzig, 1876-1891) edited by Ferdinand Lindemann.
- Théorie der binären algebraischen Formen (Teubner, 1872)
- Theorie der Abelschen Functionen with P. Gordan (B. G. Teubner, 1866)
- Theorie der Elasticität fester Körper (B. G. Teubner, 1862)
See also
- Clebsch graph
- Clebsch representation
- Clebsch surface
- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Helmholtz equation
- Hyperboloid model
- Pentagram map
- Quaternary cubic
References
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alfred Clebsch", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Alfred Clebsch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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