Adolf Weiler

Adolf Weiler (1851–1916) was a Swiss mathematician.

Adolf Weiler
Born	(1851-12-27)27 December 1851 Winterthur, Switzerland
Died	1 May 1916(1916-05-01) (aged 64)
Alma mater	University of Erlangen
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	ETH Zurich University of Zurich
Thesis	Ueber die verschiedenen Gattungen der Complexe zweiten Grades (1874)
Doctoral advisor	Felix Klein

Life and work

After his studies in the Department of Mathematics Teachers of the Polytechnicum of Zurich, he went to study at university of Göttingen and university of Erlangen under Alfred Clebsch and Felix Klein. He was awarded doctor in 1874 with a dissertation on quadratic line complexes.^[1] Some years before, in 1872, he constructed a model of the Clebsch's diagonal surface.^[2]

Returned to Switzerland, he was mathematics professor at Ryffel Institute and he obtained the venia legendi both at Polytechnicum as the University of Zurich. His main research was in algebraic geometry.^[3]