Emil Adalbert Müller (22 April 1861 – 1 September 1927) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous c ...

n mathematician.

Biography

Born in

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, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology. In 1898 he defended his dissertation (''Die Geometrie orientierter Kugeln nach Grassmann’schen Methoden'') at the University of Königsberg with

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. One year later he received his habilitation at the same university. Since 1902 he was professor for

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at the Vienna University of Technology and founder of the Vienna school of descriptive geometry. He also served as dean and president (1912–13). In 1903 he founded the

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together with Ludwig Boltzmann and Gustav von Escherich. In 1904 Müller was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Heidelberg. He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Emil 1861 births 1927 deaths 20th-century Austrian mathematicians Academic staff of TU Wien Mathematicians from Austria-Hungary Rectors of universities in Austria