Ernst Kötter | |
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Born | |
Died | 26 January 1922[1] | (aged 62)
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.
Kötter graduated in 1884 from the University of Berlin under the supervision of Karl Weierstrass and Leopold Kronecker. [2]
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 Monge to Staudt (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]
Ernst Kötter | |
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Born | |
Died | 26 January 1922[1] | (aged 62)
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.
Kötter graduated in 1884 from the University of Berlin under the supervision of Karl Weierstrass and Leopold Kronecker. [2]
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 Monge to Staudt (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]