Mathematician:Ludwig Otto Hesse

Mathematician

German mathematician who worked mainly on algebraic invariants and geometry.

Nationality

Prussian

History

• Born: 22 April 1811 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
• Died: 4 August 1874 in Munich, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Hessian:
  • Hessian Matrix
  • Hessian Determinant

• Hesse Configuration
• Hessian Curve
• Hessian Group
• Hesse Normal Form
• Hessian Pairs
• Hesse Pencil

• Hesse's Principle of Transfer
• Hesse's Theorem

Results named for Ludwig Otto Hesse can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Ludwig Otto Hesse can be found here.

Publications

• 1840: De octo punctis intersectionis trium superficium secundi ordinis ("The eight points of intersection of the second order")

• 1861: Vorlesungen über analytische Geometrie des Raumes: insbesondere über Oberflächen zweiter Ordnung ("Lectures on the analytical geometry of space: in particular on surfaces of the second order")
• 1865: Vorlesungen über analytische Geometrie der geraden Linie, des Punktes und des Kreises in der Ebene ("Lectures on the analytical geometry of the straight line, the point and the circle in the plane")
• 1874: Sieben Vorlesungen aus der analytischen Geometrie der Kegelschnitte ("Seven lectures on the analytical geometry of conic sections") (Z. Math. Phys. Vol. 19: pp. 1 – 52)

Also known as

Usually known as Otto Hesse.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Ludwig Otto Hesse": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Hessian
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Hessian