Alfred Clebsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Clebsch

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1833

Place of Birth: Königsberg

Date of Death: 07-Nov-1872

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833 – 7 November 1872) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Berlin.
He subsequently taught in Berlin and Karlsruhe.
His collaboration with Paul Gordan in Giessen led to the introduction of Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for spherical harmonics, which are now widely used in quantum mechanics. Together with Carl Neumann at Göttingen, he founded the mathematical research journal Mathematische Annalen in 1868. In 1883 Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant translated Clebsch's work on elasticity into French and published it as Théorie de l'élasticité des Corps Solides.