Carl Friedrich Geiser is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Carl Friedrich Geiser as Swiss mathematician (1843-1934).
Carl Friedrich Geiser was born at Langenthal in 1843. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He studied at University of Bern and ETH Zurich.
The nineteenth century made mathematics rigorous: definitions were tightened, foundations questioned, and whole fields created from scratch.
His academic posts were held at ETH Zurich.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics, differential geometry and algebraic geometry.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Carl Friedrich Geiser died in 1934, aged 91. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at ETH Zurich
- Fields: mathematics, differential geometry and algebraic geometry
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