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Biography

Born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Brill was educated at the University of Giessen, where he earned his doctorate under supervision of Alfred Clebsch. He held a chair at the University of Tübingen, where Max Planck was among his students.

In 1874, Max Noether and von Brill introduced the study of special divisors known as Brill–Noether theory.²: vii 

In 1933, he joined the National Socialist Teachers League as one of the first members from Tübingen.³: 21 

Legacy

The London Science Museum contains sliceform objects prepared by Brill and Felix Klein.⁴

Selected publications

• von Brill, Alexander; Noether, Max (1874). "Ueber die algebraischen Functionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie". Mathematische Annalen. 7 (2): 269–316. doi:10.1007/BF02104804. JFM 06.0251.01. S2CID 120777748. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
• Vorlesungen über ebene algebraische Kurven und Funktionen. 1925.⁵
• Vorlesungen über allgemeine Mechanik. 1928.⁶
• Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Mechanik raumerfüllender Massen. 1909.
• Graphische Darstellungen aus der reinen und angewandten Mathematik. 1894.
• with Max Noether: Über algebraische Funktionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie. Mitt. Göttinger Akad.1873, and their article with the same name in the Mathematischen Annalen Bd.7, 1874, Online
• with Max Noether: Die Entwicklung der Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen in älterer und neuerer Zeit. Jahresbericht DMV 1894.
• Das Relativitätsprinzip. Teubner 1912.⁷
• Über Kepler's Astronomia nova. Stuttgart 1930. (15 pp.)

See also

• Brill–Noether theory
• Chasles–Cayley–Brill formula
• Discriminant of an algebraic number field

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alexander von Brill", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

Media related to Alexander Wilhelm von Brill (mathematician) at Wikimedia Commons

References

1. E. Schönhardt (Jan 1936). "Alexander v. Brill". Deutsche Mathematik. 1 (1): 17–22. ↩

2. Eduardo Casas-Alvero (2019). Algebraic Curves, the Brill and Noether way. Universitext. Springer. ISBN 9783030290153. 9783030290153 ↩

3. E. Schönhardt (Jan 1936). "Alexander v. Brill". Deutsche Mathematik. 1 (1): 17–22. ↩

4. "Abril 2012: Superficies seccionadas I". DivulgaMAT (in Spanish). 3 April 2012. Archived from the original on 3 Feb 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150203094658/http://divulgamat2.ehu.es/divulgamat15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13904&directory=67&showall=1 ↩

5. Emch, Arnold (1926). "Review: Vorlesungen über ebene algebraische Kurven und Funktionen by Alexander Brill" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (3): 292–294. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1926-04217-8. /wiki/Arnold_Emch ↩

6. Robertson, H. P. (1932). "Review: Vorlesungen über allgemeine Mechanik by A. Brill" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38, Part 1 (1): 17–18. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05303-4. /wiki/Howard_P._Robertson ↩

7. Wilson, E. B. (1913). "Review: Das Relativitätsprinzip von A. Brill" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (6): 321–322. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1913-02346-2. /wiki/Edwin_Bidwell_Wilson ↩