Ferdinand Minding, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian mathematician
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Place of Birth: Kalisz, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Ferdinand Minding
- Ernst Ferdinand Adolf Minding (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ???????; January 11 1806 [O.S.
- December 30] – May 13 [O.S.
- May 1] 1885) was a German-Russian mathematician known for his contributions to differential geometry.
- He continued the work of Carl Friedrich Gauss concerning differential geometry of surfaces, especially its intrinsic aspects.
- Minding considered questions of bending of surfaces and proved the invariance of geodesic curvature.
- He studied ruled surfaces, developable surfaces and surfaces of revolution and determined geodesics on the pseudosphere.
- Minding's results on the geometry of geodesic triangles on a surface of constant curvature (1840) anticipated Beltrami's approach to the foundations of non-Euclidean geometry (1868).
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