Julius Weingarten
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Julius Weingarten was a German
mathematician
. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces
, such as the
Weingarten equations
.
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces
Differential geometry of surfaces
In mathematics, the differential geometry of surfaces deals with smooth surfaces with various additional structures, most often, a Riemannian metric....
, such as the
Weingarten equations
Weingarten equations
Weingarten equations give expansion of the derivative of the unit normal vector to a surface in terms of the first derivatives of the position vector of this surface...
.