Engel

Friedrich Engel

Born: 26 Dec 1861 in Lagau (near Chemnitz), Germany
Died: 29 Sept 1941 in Giessen, Germany

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Friedrich Engel studied under Lie. Engel published Lie's collected works and later the collected works of Grassmann. He collaborated with Stäckel in studying the history of non-euclidean geometry. Engel wrote on groups, partial differential equations, Pfaffian equations and other topics.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Friedrich Engel, Deutsche Mathematik 3 (1938), 701-719.
  3. E Ulrich, Ein Nachruf auf Friedrich Engel, Mitteilungen des Mathematischen Seminars der Universität Giessen 34 (1945). 
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