Adolph Göpel [SEP] place of death
Adolph Göpel
Adolph Göpel (29 September 1812 – 7 June 1847) was a German mathematician who did the first paper on hyperelliptic functions and who introduced Göpel tetrads.
Life and work.
His uncle was a diplomat so he attended his first mathematical lectures in Italy when he was 13. He entered the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1829 and received his doctorate in 1835. He did not correspond with many mathematicians, excepting August Leopold Crelle. After his death some of his works were published in Crelle's Journal.
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Hyperelliptic curves also appear composing entire connected components of certain strata of the moduli space of Abelian differentials.
Hyperellipticity of genus-2 curves was used to prove Gromov's filling area conjecture in the case of fillings of genus 1.
Classification.
Hyperelliptic curves of given genus "g" have a moduli space, closely related to the ring of invariants of a binary form of degree 2"g"+2.
Example.
See Bolza surface
History.
Hyperelliptic functions were first published by Adolph Göpel (1812-1847)