Aurel Voss

Aurel Voss (7 December 1845 – 19 April 1931) was a German mathematician, best known today for his contributions to geometry and mechanics.^[1][2] He served as president of the German Mathematical Society for the 1898 term. He was a professor at the University of Munich during 1902–1923. He became Emeritus in 1923.

Aurel Voss
Born	(1845-12-07)7 December 1845 Altona, Hamburg
Died	19 April 1931(1931-04-19) (aged 85) Munich
Education	University of Hannover University of Göttingen University of Heidelberg (Deegre) University of Göttingen (PhD)
Known for	Contracted Bianchi identities
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Clebsch
Doctoral students	Ludwig Berwald Hugo Dingler Fritz Noether

In 1880, Voss published a version of the contracted Bianchi identities.^[3][4]

Career

Education

Voss studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Hannover, the University of Göttingen and the University of Heidelberg between 1864 and 1868.

He received a PhD from the University of Göttingen the following year.

Honours

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering Sciences by TH Munich in 1915.

Publications

• Aurel, Voss (1908), Die Prinzipien der rationellen Mechanik (in German), vol. In: Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften
• Aurel, Voss (1899), Differential- und Integralrechnung (in German), vol. In: Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften