Nationality Prussian | Name Alfred Clebsch Notable awards Poncelet Prize Role Mathematician | |
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Alma mater University of Konigsberg Doctoral students Gottlob FregeAlexander von Brill Known for Clebsch surfaceClebsch–Gordan coefficients Died November 7, 1872, Gottingen, Germany Books Theorie de L'Elasticite Des Corps Solides Similar People Paul Gordan, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Franz Ernst Neumann | ||
Education University of Konigsberg Doctoral advisor Franz Ernst Neumann | ||
Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833 – 7 November 1872) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Berlin. He subsequently taught in Berlin and Karlsruhe. His collaboration with Paul Gordan in Giessen led to the introduction of Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for spherical harmonics, which are now widely used in quantum mechanics.
Together with Carl Neumann at Göttingen, he founded the mathematical research journal Mathematische Annalen in 1868.
In 1883 Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant translated Clebsch's work on elasticity into French and published it as Théorie de l'élasticité des Corps Solides.
Books by A. Clebsch
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