Alfred Enneper

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Alfred Enneper (born June 14, 1830 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ), † March 24, 1885 in Hanover ) was a German mathematician who was particularly concerned with differential geometry .

Enneper received his doctorate in 1856 at the University of Göttingen , where he previously studied with Carl Friedrich Gauß . In 1859 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen and in 1870 became associate professor in Göttingen. From 1865 he was an assessor at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Alfred Enneper was in 1864 about the same time as Karl Weierstrass (1866) numerous new examples of minimal surfaces with the so-called Enneper-Weierstrass construction (or Enneper-Weierstrass parameterization), including the Enneperfläche , one named after Enneper minimal surface. A global form of the Enneper-Weierstrass construction comes from Robert Osserman . Behind the construction is a Gaussian map (with subsequent stereographic projection) of the associated Riemann surface and the sentence that this Gaussian map is holomorphic precisely for minimal surfaces.

literature

  • Gottwald, Illgauds, Schlote Lexicon of important mathematicians , Leipzig 1990 (source for biographical data)
  • David Allen Hoffman The Computer-Aided Discovery of New Embedded Minimal Surfaces , Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 9, 1987, pp. 8-21 (on the Enneper-Weierstrass construction)

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References

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 76.
  2. ↑ Enneper "Analytical-Geometric Investigations", Journal for Mathematics and Physics, Vol. 9, 1864, pp. 96–125
personal data
SURNAME Enneper, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1885
Place of death Hanover