Alfred Enneper (June 14, 1830,
Barmen
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– March 24, 1885
Hanover) was a German mathematician. Enneper earned his
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from the
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 1856, under the supervision of
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, for his dissertation about
functions with
complex arguments.
[.] After his
habilitation
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in 1859 in Göttingen, he was from 1870 on Professor (Extraordinarius) at Göttingen.
He studied
minimal surfaces and
parametrized Enneper's minimal surface
In differential geometry and algebraic geometry, the Enneper surface is a self-intersecting surface that can be described parametrically by:
\begin
x &= \tfrac u \left(1 - \tfracu^2 + v^2\right), \\
y &= \tfrac v \left(1 - \tfracv^2 + u^2\right) ...
s in 1864. A contemporary of
Karl Weierstrass, the two created a whole class of parameterizations, the
Enneper–Weierstrass parameterization.
[.]
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19th-century German mathematicians
1830 births
1885 deaths
University of Göttingen alumni
University of Göttingen faculty
Scientists from Wuppertal
Differential geometers
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