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Nov 10, 2013 · Christoffel studied at the University of Berlin from 1850 where he was taught by Borchardt, Eisenstein, Joachimsthal, Steiner and Dirichlet. It was Dirichlet who had the greatest influence on him and Christoffel is rightly thought of as a student of Dirichlet 's.
Elwin Bruno Christoffel (German: [kʁɪˈstɔfl̩]; 10 November 1829 – 15 March 1900) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry , opening the way for the development of tensor calculus , which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity .
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This article begins with an account of the life of Christoffel and of the intellectual milieu in which he worked, namely the Institutes of Technology in Zürich and Berlin, and the University of Strasbourg. A survey of Christoffel’s work follows. His major...
- Paul L Butzer
- 1981
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tional Christoffel Symposium of 8-11 November 1979. The present outline has the advantage of the dozen festivallectures presented at this symposium, concentrat ing on various branches of Christoffel's work, as well as of many of the fourty-five invited papers that dealt with particular aspects of Christoffel's contributions.
Jul 1, 2016 · F. V. Atkinson. 120 Accesses. 1 Citations. Abstract. The many and varied contributions of Christoffel to mathematics include two major papers on the propagation of discontinuities in solutions of partial differential equations [1], [2].
