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19th-century algebraic geometers

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Alexander von Brill

Alexander Wilhelm von Brill (1842–1935) was a German mathematician who, with Max Noether, founded the algebraic-geometric theory of algebraic functions, taught Planck and Hurwitz at Munich, and held the chair at Tübingen.

Friedrich Prym

Friedrich Prym was a German mathematician who held the Chair of Mathematics at Würzburg from 1869 to 1909 and is remembered for the Prym formula and Prym variety.

George Salmon

George Salmon (1819–1904) was an Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian at Trinity College Dublin, Provost from 1888, known for proving a cubic surface contains exactly 27 lines.

Georges Fontené

Georges Fontené (1848–1923) was a French mathematician and Paris school inspector known for the Rouché-Fontené theorem on linear equations, and for work on hyperspace geometry and Poncelet's theorem.

Herbert William Richmond

Herbert William Richmond (1863–1948) was an English mathematician at King's College, Cambridge, known for his 1893 construction of the regular 17-sided polygon and the Cremona–Richmond configuration.

Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen

Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (1839–1920) was a Danish mathematician who helped found enumerative geometry, the counting of geometric figures, and later became a leading historian of Greek mathematics.

Isaak Bacharach

Isaak Bacharach (1854–1942) was a German mathematician and secondary-school teacher in Erlangen and Nürnberg whose 1886 correction of Cayley's intersection theorem became known as the Cayley–Bacharach theorem.

Jacob Lüroth

Jacob Lüroth (1844–1910) was a German mathematician and professor at Freiburg known for Lüroth's theorem, the Lüroth quartic, and the Lüroth problem on unirational varieties.

Luigi Cremona

Luigi Cremona (1830–1903) was an Italian mathematician who gave his name to the Cremona transformation and Cremona group, and founded the Italian school of geometry.

Max Noether

Max Noether (1844–1921) was a German mathematician who led the algebraic-geometric school at Erlangen, proved the AF + BG theorem, and was the father of Emmy Noether.