Eduard Weyr
Eduard Weyr (born June 22, 1852 in Prague , † July 23, 1903 in Saborsch an der Elbe ) was an Austrian mathematician.
Life
Eduard was born the fourth of ten children of Franz Weyr and Marie Rumpl. His father, who was born in Nachod in 1820 , was a math teacher at a school in Prague from 1855. Another son was Emil Weyr . Eduard attended the school where his father worked. He then studied at the Polytechnic and later at the Karl Ferdinand University . Then he went to the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1873 ("About algebraic space curves"). Then he studied with Charles Hermite and Joseph Serret . It continued in Prague. In 1881 he became a professor. In 1885/6 he continued his education with Leopold Kronecker and Karl Weierstrass . His tombstone is in the Olšany Cemetery in Prague.
plant
His mathematical publications mainly concerned projective geometry and differential geometry , although he also worked in the fields of linear algebra , matrix and hypercomplex number systems .
In 1875 he proved that the general solution of the Riccatian differential equation can be expressed in terms of three known solutions.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Weyr, Eduard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 55th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1887, p. 205 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jindřich Bečvář: Eduard Weyr: 1852-1903 (1995).
Web link
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Eduard Weyr. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Eduard Weyr in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weyr, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1903 |
| Place of death | Saborsch on the Elbe |