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   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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3. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk › ChristoffelElwin Bruno Christoffel - MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive

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   Nov 10, 2013 · C F Geiser and L Maurer, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Mathematische Annalen 54 (1901), 329-341. E Knobloch, Die Berliner Gewerbeakademie und ihre Mathematiker, in P L Butzer and F Fehér ( eds. ) , E B Christoffel: The influence of his work on mathematics and the physical sciences ( Basel- Boston- Stuttgart, 1981) , 42 - 51 .

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   Elwin Bruno Christoffel. 1829-1900. German mathematician who made major contributions in a number of mathematical disciplines, including tensor analysis, differential equations, and several areas of mathematical physics. Christoffel was considered one of the best professors and practitioners of mathematics during his era. His work on tensor ...

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6. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleAn outline of the life and work of E. B. Christoffel (1829 ...

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   Aug 1, 1981 · A BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE Elwin Bruno Christoffel was born on 10 November 1829 at Montjoie (Monschau since 1918), about 30 kilometers south of the city of Aachen in the westernmost part of Germany, near the Belgian border. He was the third son of Franz Karl Christoffel (1798-1832) and Maria Helena Christoffel (nee Engels) (17951858).

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   Elwin Bruno Christoffel besuchte das Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Köln, studierte an der Universität Berlin – unter anderem bei Peter Gustav Dirichlet – und promovierte 1856 mit einer Arbeit zur Bewegung der Elektrizität in homogenen Körpern. Danach kehrte er nach Montjoie, heute Monschau, zurück und lebte dort drei Jahre in ...

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   Elwin Bruno Christoffel 1829-1900. Elwin Christoffel attended an elementary school in Montjoie, but then spent a number of years being tutored at home in languages, mathematics and classics. He attended secondary schools from 1844 until 1849. At first he studied at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne but moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms Gymnasium.

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   Who was Elwin Christoffel?

   • 1. A BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE Elwin Bruno Christoffel was born on 10 November 1829 at Montjoie (Monschau since 1918), about 30 kilometers south of the city of Aachen in the westernmost part of Germany, near the Belgian border. He was the third son of Franz Karl Christoffel (1798-1832) and Maria Helena Christoffel (nee Engels) (17951858).

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   Who was E B Christoffel?

   • E. B. Christoffel. The influence of his work on mathematics and the physical sciences. International Christoffel symposium. A collection of articles in honour of Christoffel on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Basel/Boston: Birkhauser. In press.

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   Who presented Christoffel in his obituary?

   • The most important presentation of the life and work of Christoffel by his contemporaries was provided by two of his former students and colleagues, Carl Friedrich Geiser (1843-1934) and Ludwig Maurer (1859-1927) (see [Geiser & Maurer 1901] and in the obituary address of the philosopher Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915) [Windelband 1901]).

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   When did Heinrich Christoffel die?

   • His successor, appointed 1 January 1895, was Heinrich Weber. Four months after his 70th birthday, on 15 March 1900, Christoffel died in Strasbourg. Like Weierstrass, Christoffel never married, and thus left no family at the time of his death.

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    Christoffel, Elwin Bruno. ( b. Montjoie [now Monschau], near Aachen, Germany, 10 November 1829; d. Strasbourg, Frange [then Germany], 15 March 1900), mathematics. Christoffel studied at the University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1856 with a dissertation on the motion of electricity in homogeneous bodies.