Alexander von Brill

Alexander von Brill (born Alexander Wilhelm Brill; 20 September 1842 – 18 June 1935) was a German mathematician.

Biography Born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Brill was educated at the University of Giessen, where he earned his doctorate under supervision of Alfred Clebsch. He held a chair at the University of Tübingen, where Max Planck was among his students.

In 1874, Max Noether and von Brill introduced the study of special divisors known as Brill–Noether theory.

In 1933, he joined the National Socialist Teachers League as one of the first members from Tübingen.

Selected publications

Vorlesungen über ebene algebraische Kurven und Funktionen. 1925. Vorlesungen über allgemeine Mechanik. 1928. Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Mechanik raumerfüllender Massen. 1909. Graphische Darstellungen aus der reinen und angewandten Mathematik. 1894. with Max Noether: , and their article with the same name in the Mathematischen Annalen Bd.7, 1874, with Max Noether: Das Relativitätsprinzip. Teubner 1912. Über Kepler's Astronomia nova. Stuttgart 1930. (15 pp.)