Sigmund Gundelfinger

Sigmund Gundelfinger (14 February 1846 in Kirchberg an der Jagst – 13 December 1910 in Darmstadt) was a German-Jewish[1] mathematician who introduced the Gundelfinger quartic and proved the completeness of the invariants of a ternary cubic.

Gundelfinger quartic

In mathematics, the Gundelfinger quartic is a quartic surface in projective space studied by Gundelfinger (1875).

Selected works
  • Gundelfinger, Sigmund (1895). Dingeldey, Friedrich (ed.). Vorlesungen aus der Analytischen Geometrie der Kegelschnitte. Leipzig: Teubner.[2]
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References
  1. Rose, Emily C. (2001). Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. p. 282. ISBN 0-8276-0706-7.
  2. Morley, Frank (1895). "Review of Vorlesungen aus der Analytischen Geometrie der Kegelschnitte by Sigmund Gundelfinger, ed. by Friedrich Dingeldey" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (3): 65–72. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1895-00313-4.
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