Emil Weyr

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Emil Weyr
Jan Vilímek - Emil Weyr HL.jpg
Born(1848-07-01)1 July 1848
Prague, Bohemia
Died25 January 1894(1894-01-25) (aged 45)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
NationalityCzech
Alma materUniversity of Prague, Ph.D. 1870
Universität Leipzig, Dr. phil. 1869
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
ThesisVier gedruckte Abhandlungen aus den Sitzungsberichten der Wiener Akademie[1]
Doctoral advisorOtto Wilhelm Fiedler[1]
Carl Gottfried Neumann
Wilhelm Scheibner [de]
Doctoral studentsAlfred Tauber
Wilhelm Wirtinger

Emil Weyr (1 July 1848 – 25 January 1894) was an Austrian-Czech mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry.[2]

Born in Prague, Weyr attended the Prague Polytechnic, where he was taught by Heinrich Durège and Otto Wilhelm Fiedler.[2]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Theorie der mehrdeutigen geometrischen Elementargebilde und der algebraischen Curven und Flächen als deren Erzeugnisse. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 1869.
  • Geometrie der räumlichen Erzeugnisse ein-zwei-deutiger Gebilde. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 1870.
  • Die Elemente der projectivischen Geometrie. Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller. 1883.
  • Über die Geometrie der alten Ægypter. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn. 1884.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Emil Weyr at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Emil Weyr", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews

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