1. Christian Hugo Eduard Study was a German mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms and for the study of spherical trigonometry.
15 Facts About Eduard Study
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Eduard Study is known for contributions to space geometry, hypercomplex numbers, and criticism of early physical chemistry.
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Eduard Study began his studies in Jena, Strasbourg, Leipzig, and Munich.
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Eduard Study was awarded the doctorate in mathematics at the University of Munich in 1884.
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Paul Gordan, an expert in invariant theory was at Leipzig, and Eduard Study returned there as Privatdozent.
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Eduard Study gave a plenary address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1904 at Heidelberg and another in 1912 at Cambridge, UK.
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In 1891 Eduard Study published "Of Motions and Translations, in two parts".
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Eduard Study cites William Kingdon Clifford as an earlier source on these biquaternions.
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In 1901 Eduard Study published Geometrie der Dynamen using dual quaternions.
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Eduard Study showed an early interest in systems of complex numbers and their application to transformation groups with his article in 1890.
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Eduard Study addressed this popular subject again in 1898 in Klein's encyclopedia.
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In 1905 Eduard Study wrote "Kurzeste Wege im komplexen Gebiet" for Mathematische Annalen.
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The distance Eduard Study refers to is a Hermitian form on complex projective space.
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Eduard Study was careful in 1905 to distinguish the hyperbolic and elliptic cases in Hermitian geometry.
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Somewhat surprisingly Eduard Study is known by practitioners of quantum chemistry.