Alexander von Brill

Born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Brill was educated at the University of Giessen, where he earned his doctorate under supervision of Alfred Clebsch. He held a chair at the University of Tübingen, where Max Planck was among his students.

In 1874, Max Noether and von Brill introduced the study of special divisors known as Brill–Noether theory.^[2]: vii

In 1933, he joined the National Socialist Teachers League as one of the first members from Tübingen.^[1]: 21

The London Science Museum contains sliceform objects prepared by Brill and Felix Klein.^[3]

• von Brill, Alexander; Noether, Max (1874). "Ueber die algebraischen Functionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie". Mathematische Annalen. 7 (2): 269–316. doi:10.1007/BF02104804. JFM 06.0251.01. S2CID 120777748. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
• Vorlesungen über ebene algebraische Kurven und Funktionen. 1925.^[4]
• Vorlesungen über allgemeine Mechanik. 1928.^[5]
• Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Mechanik raumerfüllender Massen. 1909.
• Graphische Darstellungen aus der reinen und angewandten Mathematik. 1894.
• with Max Noether: Über algebraische Funktionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie. Mitt. Göttinger Akad.1873^{[link removed]}, and their article with the same name in the Mathematischen Annalen Bd.7, 1874, Online^{[link removed]}
• with Max Noether: Die Entwicklung der Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen in älterer und neuerer Zeit. Jahresbericht DMV 1894.^{[link removed]}
• Das Relativitätsprinzip. Teubner 1912.^[6]
• Über Kepler's Astronomia nova. Stuttgart 1930. (15 pp.)

• Brill–Noether theory
• Chasles–Cayley–Brill formula
• Discriminant of an algebraic number field