Adolph Mayer

Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer

Born: 15 Feb 1839 in Leipzig, Germany
Died: 11 April 1907 in Gries bei Bozen, Austria (now Bolzano, Italy)

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Adolph Mayer studied at Königsberg under Franz Neumann and received a doctorate from Heidelberg in 1861. He taught there for the rest of his life working on differential equations, the calculus of variations and mechanics. He emphasised the principle of least action in all his work which followed the path of Lagrange and Jacobi.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. O Hölder, Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer, Berichte über die Verhandlungen der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig 60 (1908), 353-373.
  3. F Klein, Korrespondenz Felix Klein--Adolph Mayer (Leipzig, 1990). 
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