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Ernst Kötter

Born

(1859-08-07)7 August 1859

Died

26 January 1922(1922-01-26) (aged 62)[1]

Alma mater

University of Berlin

Awards

Prize of the Berlin Royal Academy (1886)

Scientific career

Fields

Mathematician

Thesis

Zur Theorie der Osculationen bei ebenen Curven 3. Ordnung (1884)

Academic advisors

Karl Weierstrass
Leopold Kronecker

Ernst Kötter (1859-1922) was a German mathematician.

Education[edit]

Kötter graduated in 1884 from the University of Berlin under the supervision of Karl Weierstrass and Leopold Kronecker.[2]

Career[edit]

Kötter's treatise "Fundamentals of a purely geometrical theory of algebraic plane curves" gained the 1886 prize of the Berlin Royal Academy.[3]

In 1901, he published his report on "The development of synthetic geometry from MongetoStaudt (1847)";[4] it had been sent to the press as early as 1897, but completion was deferred by Kötter's appointment to Aachen University and a subsequent persisting illness.[5] He constructed a mobile wood model to illustrate the theorems of Dandelin spheres.[6][7]

In a discussion with Schoenflies and Kötter, Hilbert reportedly uttered his famous quotation according to which points, lines, and planes in geometry could be named as well "tables, chairs, and beer mugs".[8]

Publications[edit]

References[edit]

  • ^ Norman Fraser (Feb 1888). "Kötter's synthetic geometry of algebraic curves". Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 7: 46–61. doi:10.1017/s0013091500030364. Here: p.46
  • ^ Ernst Kötter (1901). Die Entwickelung der Synthetischen Geometrie von Monge bis auf Staudt (1847). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-08-10. (2012 Reprint as ISBN 1275932649)
  • ^ Kötter (1901), Preface, p.VIII
  • ^ "Vermischtes (Miscellany)". Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 16: 82. 1907.
  • ^ IllustrationofGroningen University
  • ^ Otto Blumenthal (1935). David Hilbert (ed.). Lebensgeschichte. Gesammelte Abhandlungen. Vol. 3. Julius Springer. pp. 388–429. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-08-10. Here: p.402-403
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