Adolf Weiler

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. Some years before, in 1872, he constructed a model of the Clebsch's diagonal surface.

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.