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Elwin Bruno Christoffel
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'''Elwin Bruno Christoffel''' (born November 10, 1829 in Montjoie, now called Monschau; died March 15, 1900 in Strasbourg) was a Germany German and France French mathematician and physicist.
Life
Christoffel attended the Jesuit Gymnasium and Friedrich-Wilhelms Gymnasium in Cologne and studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin University of Berlin
with Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet Dirichlet, among others, where he received a doctorate in 1856
for a thesis on the motion of electricity in homogeous bodies. In 1859, Christoffel
became a privatdozent at the University of Berlin.
In 1862 he was appointed to a chair at the ETH Zurich Polytechnic School in
Zurich left vacant by Richard Dedekind Dedekind. After moving to the Gewerbeakademie in
Berlin (now part of the Technical University of Berlin)
in 1869, Christoffel became a professor at the University of Strasbourg in
1872, where he remained until retiring in 1894.
Work
Christoffel worked on conformal maps, potential theory,
invariant theory, tensor analysis,
mathematical physics, geodesy, and shock waves.
The Christoffel symbol and Schwarz-Christoffel mapping are named after him.
References
- MacTutor entry on Christoffel
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