Aurel Voss

Aurel Voss
Born(1845-12-07)7 December 1845
Altona, Hamburg
Died19 April 1931(1931-04-19) (aged 85)
Munich
EducationUniversity of Hannover
University of Göttingen
Heidelberg University (Deegre)
University of Göttingen (PhD)
Known forContracted Bianchi identities
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Alfred Clebsch
Doctoral students
Ludwig Berwald
Hugo Dingler
Fritz Noether

Aurel Voss (7 December 1845, Altona, Germany – 19 April 1931, Munich, Germany) was a German mathematician, best known today for his contributions to geometry and mechanics. He served as president of the German Mathematical Society for the 1898 term. He was a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1902 until 1923. He became Emeritus in 1923.

In 1880, Voss published a version of the contracted Bianchi identities.

Career

Education

Voss studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Hannover, the University of Göttingen, and Heidelberg University between 1864 and 1868.

He received a PhD from the University of Göttingen the following year.

Honors

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering Sciences by TH Munich in 1915.

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ A short biography of Aurel Voss in Hessische Biografie.
  2. ↑ Vollrath, Hans-Joachim (1993), "Über die Berufung von Aurel Voss auf den Lehrstuhl für Mathematik in Würzburg" [About the appointment of Aurel Voss to the chair of mathematics in Würzburg], Würzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen (in German), 11: 133–151, PMID 11639870
  3. ↑ Voss, A. (1880), "Zur Theorie der Transformation quadratischer Differentialausdrücke und der Krümmung höherer Mannigfaltigketien", Mathematische Annalen (in German), 16 (2): 129–178, doi:10.1007/bf01446384, S2CID 122828265
  4. ↑ Bianchi, Luigi (1902), "Sui simboli a quattro indici e sulla curvatura di Riemann", Rend. Acc. Naz. Lincei (in Italian), 11 (5): 3–7