Died 1900-03-15.
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Elwin Bruno Christoffel
Elwin Bruno Christoffel 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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science · German mathematician and physicist (1829–1900) · mathematician · physicist · university teacher · also Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Christoffel
Born 10 November 1829 · Died 15 March 1900 · Q58795
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1872· 1 entry
Christoffel became a professor at the University of Strasbourg, a centuries-old institution that was being reorganized into a modern university after Prussia's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian War
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1869· 1 entry
Christoffel returned to Berlin as a professor at the Gewerbeakademie (now part of Technische Universität Berlin), with Hermann Schwarz succeeding him in Zürich
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1868· 1 entry
Was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and of the Istituto Lombardo in Milan
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1862· 1 entry
Was appointed to a chair at the Polytechnic School in Zürich left vacant by Richard Dedekind
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1859· 1 entry
Christoffel returned to Berlin, earning his habilitation and becoming a Privatdozent at the University of Berlin
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1856· 2 entries
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin, Doctor (1850–1856).
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For a thesis on the motion of electricity in homogeneous bodies written under the supervision of Martin Ohm, Ernst Kummer and Heinrich Gustav Magnus
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1850· 1 entry
Went to the University of Berlin, where he studied mathematics with Gustav Dirichlet (who had a strong influence over him) among others, as well as attending courses in physics and chemistry
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1849· 1 entry
Studied at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (1849).
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1844· 1 entry
Studied at Dreikönigsgymnasium (1844).
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1829· 1 entry
Born 1829-11-10.
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