Aurel Voss


Aurel Voss was a German mathematician, best known today for his contributions to geometry and mechanics. He served as president of the German Mathematical Society for the 1898 term.
He was a professor at the University of Munich during 1902–1923. He became Emeritus in 1923.
In 1880, Voss published a version of the contracted Bianchi identities.

Career

Education

Voss studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Hannover, the University of Göttingen and the University of Heidelberg between 1864 and 1868.
He received a PhD from the University of Göttingen the following year.

Honours

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering Sciences by TH Munich in 1915.