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Elwin Bruno Christoffel

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Elwin Bruno Christoffel (November 10, 1829 - March 15, 1900) was a German and French mathematician and physicist. November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ...


The Christoffel symbol and Schwarz-Christoffel mapping are named after him. In mathematics and physics, the Christoffel symbols, named for Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829-1900), are coordinate-space expressions for the Levi-Civita connection derived from the metric tensor. ... In complex analysis, a discipline within mathematics, a Schwarz-Christoffel mapping is a transformation of the complex plane that maps the upper half-plane conformally to a polygon. ...



 

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