Ernst Kötter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Kötter

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1859

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 26-Jan-1922

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Ernst Kötter was a German mathematician who graduated in 1884 from Berlin University. His treatise "Fundamentals of a purely geometrical theory of algebraic plane curves" gained the 1886 prize of the Berlin Royal Academy. In 1901, he published his report on "The development of synthetic geometry from Monge to Staudt (1847)"; it had been sent to the press as early as 1897, but completion was deferred by Kötter's appointment to Aachen University and a subsequent persisting illness. He constructed a mobile wood model to illustrate the theorems of Dandelin spheres.In a discussion with Schoenflies and Kötter, Hilbert reportedly uttered his famous quotation according to which points, lines, and planes in geometry could be named as well "tables, chairs, and beer mugs".