Alfred Enneper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German mathematician
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Place of Birth: Barmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Alfred Enneper
- Alfred Enneper (June 14, 1830, Barmen – March 24, 1885 Hanover) was a German mathematician.
- Enneper earned his PhD from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 1856, under the supervision of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, for his dissertation about functions with complex arguments.
- After his habilitation in 1859 in Göttingen, he was from 1870 on Professor (Extraordinarius) at Göttingen.He studied minimal surfaces and parametrized Enneper's minimal surfaces in 1864.
- A contemporary of Karl Weierstrass, the two created a whole class of parameterizations, the Enneper–Weierstrass parameterization.
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