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Hermann Cäsar Hannibal Schubert (22 May 1848 – 20 July 1911)
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 ...
.
Schubert was one of the leading developers of
enumerative geometry
In mathematics, enumerative geometry is the branch of algebraic geometry concerned with counting numbers of solutions to geometric questions, mainly by means of intersection theory.
History
The problem of Apollonius is one of the earliest exam ...
, which considers those parts of
algebraic geometry
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...
that involve a finite number of solutions. In 1874, Schubert won a prize for solving a question posed by
Zeuthen
Zeuthen is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg in Germany.
Geography
It is located near the southeastern Berlin city limits on the western shore of the Dahme (river), Dahme River and the Zeu ...
.
Schubert calculus
In mathematics, Schubert calculus is a branch of algebraic geometry introduced in the nineteenth century by Hermann Schubert in order to solve various counting problems of projective geometry and, as such, is viewed as part of enumerative geometr ...
was named after him.
Schubert tutored
Adolf Hurwitz
Adolf Hurwitz (; 26 March 1859 – 18 November 1919) was a German mathematician who worked on algebra, mathematical analysis, analysis, geometry and number theory.
Early life
He was born in Hildesheim, then part of the Kingdom of Hanover, to a ...
at the Realgymnasium Andreanum in
Hildesheim
Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim (district), Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of t ...
,
Hanover
Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...
, and arranged for Hurwitz to study under
Felix Klein
Felix Christian Klein (; ; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and Mathematics education, mathematics educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations betwe ...
at University.
See also
* Schubert cycle or
Schubert variety In algebraic geometry, a Schubert variety is a certain subvariety of a Grassmannian, \mathbf_k(V) of k-dimensional subspaces of a vector space V, usually with singular points. Like the Grassmannian, it is a kind of moduli space, whose elements sati ...
*
Schubert polynomial In mathematics, Schubert polynomials are generalizations of Schur polynomials that represent cohomology classes of Schubert cycles in flag varieties. They were introduced by and are named after Hermann Schubert.
Background
described the histo ...
Publications
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References
*Werner Burau and Bodo Renschuch, "Ergänzungen zur Biographie von Hermann Schubert," (Complements to the biography of Hermann Schubert,) ''Mitt. Math. Ges. Hamb.'' 13, pp. 63–65 (1993), ISSN 0340-4358.
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1848 births
1911 deaths
Mathematicians from the Kingdom of Prussia
19th-century German mathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
Algebraic geometers
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