Adolph Göpel (29 September 1812 – 7 June 1847) was a German
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
who wrote the first paper on
hyperelliptic functions and who introduced
Göpel tetrads.
Life and work
His uncle was a diplomat so he attended his first mathematical lectures in Italy when he was 13. He entered the
Friedrich Wilhelm University in 1829 and received his doctorate in 1835. He did not correspond with many mathematicians, excepting
August Leopold Crelle. After his death some of his works were published in
Crelle's Journal
''Crelle's Journal'', or just ''Crelle'', is the common name for a mathematics journal, the ''Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik'' (in English: ''Journal for Pure and Applied Mathematics'').
History
The journal was founded by A ...
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References
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Further reading
* Burau, Biography in ''Dictionary of Scientific Biography'' (New York 1970-1990)
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1812 births
1847 deaths
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
People from Rostock
19th-century German mathematicians
Mathematicians from the Kingdom of Prussia
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