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German mathematician
Eduard Ritter von Weber
(May 12, 1870 in
Munich
– June 20, 1934 in
Wurzburg
) was a German mathematician and Bavarian Royal Privy Counselor. He was a member of the noble Bavarian knightly family
Ritter von Weber
.
Von Weber attended the
Maximiliansgymnasium Munchen
[
de
]
and afterward from 1888-1894 pursued studies in mathematics in Munich,
Gottingen
, and Paris. In 1893 he was awarded the Ph.D. from the
University of Munich
(his dissertation being titled
Studien zur Theorie der infinitesimalen Transformationen
,
Gustav C. Bauer
, advisor). Habilitation followed at the University of Munich in 1895, becoming full professor there in 1903. He moved to the
University of Wurzburg
in 1907.
Von Weber concerned himself particularly with partial differential equations, in particular the
Pfaff problem
, and wrote the article "Partial Differential Equations" in the
Enzyklopadie der mathematischen Wissenschaften
(
Encyclopedia of the Mathematical Sciences
).
Von Weber had versatile interests and spoke numerous languages, including Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Irish.
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