Sigmund Gundelfinger Explained

Sigmund Gundelfinger (14 February 1846 in Kirchberg an der Jagst – 13 December 1910 in Darmstadt) was a German-Jewish^[1] mathematician who introduced the Gundelfinger quartic and proved the completeness of the invariants of a ternary cubic.

Gundelfinger quartic

In mathematics, the Gundelfinger quartic is a quartic surface in projective space studied by .

Selected works

• Book: Gundelfinger, Sigmund. Dingeldey, Friedrich. Vorlesungen aus der Analytischen Geometrie der Kegelschnitte. Leipzig. Teubner. 1895. ^[2]

References

• http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016325/images/index.html?seite=331

Notes and References

1. Book: Rose, Emily C.. Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside. Jewish Publication Society. Philadelphia. 2001. 282. 0-8276-0706-7.
2. Morley, Frank. Frank Morley. Review of Vorlesungen aus der Analytischen Geometrie der Kegelschnitte by Sigmund Gundelfinger, ed. by Friedrich Dingeldey. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.. 1895. 2. 3. 65–72. 10.1090/s0002-9904-1895-00313-4. free.