Wilhelm Franz Meyer

Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Meyer (1856–1934) was a German mathematician and one of the main editors of the Encyclopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften.

Wilhelm Franz Meyer
Born	(1856-09-02)2 September 1856 Magdeburg, German Confederation
Died	11 June 1934(1934-06-11) (aged 77) Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
Education	Leipzig University University of Munich
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Tübingen Bergakademie of Clausthal University of Königsberg
Thesis	Anwendungen der Topologie auf die Gestalten der algebraischen Curven, speciell der rationalen Curven 4. und 5. Ordnung (1878)

Life and work

Meyer studied in the universities of Leipzig and Munich. In 1878, he was awarded a doctorate by Munich. He studied further in Berlin under Weierstrass, Kummer and Kronecker. In 1880, he got the venia legendi at the University of Tübingen. In 1888, he became a full professor at the Bergakademie of Clausthal (today Clausthal University of Technology). From October 1897 until October 1924, when he retired, he taught at the University of Königsberg.^[1]

The wide research work of Meyer (more than 130 papers) is centred basically on geometry and, specifically, on invariant theory.^[2]

Notwithstanding he is mainly known for he was one of the main editors^[3] of the Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften published from 1898 to 1933 in 23 separate books. Meyer was directly in charge to edit the geometry volumes.^[4]