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Alfred Clebsch
Alfred Clebsch
	Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch
Born	19 January 1833; Königsberg, Prussia
Died	7 November 1872 (aged 39); Göttingen
Nationality	Prussian
Alma mater	University of Königsberg
Known for	Clebsch graph; Clebsch representation; Clebsch surface; Clebsch–Gordan coefficients; Legendre–Clebsch condition
Awards	Prix Poncelet (1868)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Thesis	De motu ellipsoidis in fluido incompressibili viribus quibuslibet impulsi
Doctoral advisor	Franz Ernst Neumann
Doctoral students	Gottlob Frege; Alexander von Brill

Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833 – 7 November 1872) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Berlin. He subsequently taught in Berlin and Karlsruhe. His collaboration with Paul Gordan in Giessen led to the introduction of Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for spherical harmonics, which are now widely used in quantum mechanics.

Together with Carl Neumann at Göttingen, he founded the mathematical research journal Mathematische Annalen in 1868.

In 1883, Saint-Venant translated Clebsch's work on elasticity into French and published it as Théorie de l'élasticité des Corps Solides.

Books by A. Clebsch

Vorlesungen über Geometrie (Teubner, Leipzig, 1876-1891) edited by Ferdinand Lindemann.
Théorie der binären algebraischen Formen (Teubner, 1872)
Theorie der Abelschen Functionen with P. Gordan (B. G. Teubner, 1866)
Theorie der Elasticität fester Körper (B. G. Teubner, 1862)

^ "Prix". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. Vol. Tomes LXII à XCI, 2 Janvier 1866 à 27 Décembre 1880. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1888. p. 1457.