About Adolf Weiler
Lived 1851 – 1916 (aged 64). Adolf Weiler was a Swiss mathematician.
Adolf Weiler (1851–1916) was a Swiss mathematician.
Life and work After his studies in the Department of Mathematics Teachers of the Polytechnicum of Zurich, he went to study at university of Göttingen and university of Erlangen under Alfred Clebsch and Felix Klein. He was awarded doctor in 1874 with a dissertation on quadratic line complexes. Some years before, in 1872, he constructed a model of the Clebsch's diagonal surface.
Returned to Switzerland, he was mathematics professor at Ryffel Institute and he obtained the venia legendi both at Polytechnicum as the University of Zurich. His main research was in algebraic geometry.
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Who was Adolf Weiler?
Swiss mathematician (1851-1916)
When was Adolf Weiler born?
Adolf Weiler was born on 27 December 1851 in Winterthur.
When did Adolf Weiler die?
Adolf Weiler died on 1 May 1916 in Zurich.
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Adolf Weiler was a mathematician.
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Adolf Weiler was Swiss.
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