{{Short description|German mathematician (1845–1931)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Aurel Voss | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1845|12|07|df=y}} | birth_place = Altona, Hamburg | death_date = {{death date and age|1931|04|19|1845|12|07|df=y}} | death_place = Munich | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = | education = University of Hannover <br> University of Göttingen <br> Heidelberg University (Deegre) <br> University of Göttingen (PhD) | doctoral_advisor = Alfred Clebsch | doctoral_students = Ludwig Berwald<br>Hugo Dingler<br>Fritz Noether | known_for = Contracted Bianchi identities | awards = }} '''Aurel Voss''' (7 December 1845, Altona, Germany – 19 April 1931, Munich, Germany) was a German mathematician, best known today for his contributions to geometry and mechanics.<ref>[https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/11745057X A short biography of Aurel Voss] in ''Hessische Biografie''.</ref><ref>{{Citation |author-first=Hans-Joachim |author-last=Vollrath |author-link = |title = Über die Berufung von Aurel Voss auf den Lehrstuhl für Mathematik in Würzburg |trans-title= About the appointment of Aurel Voss to the chair of mathematics in Würzburg |journal =Würzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen |volume =11 |issue= |pages =133–151 |year =1993 |language =German |url = |doi = |pmid=11639870 |jfm = }} </ref> He served as president of the German Mathematical Society for the 1898 term. He was a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1902 until 1923. He became Emeritus in 1923.
In 1880, Voss published a version of the contracted Bianchi identities.<ref name="voss" >{{citation|title=Zur Theorie der Transformation quadratischer Differentialausdrücke und der Krümmung höherer Mannigfaltigketien |last=Voss|first=A.|author-link=Aurel Voss|journal=Mathematische Annalen|volume=16|pages=129–178|year=1880|issue=2 |language = German|url=https://zenodo.org/record/2440927|doi=10.1007/bf01446384|s2cid=122828265}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |author-first=Luigi |author-last=Bianchi |author-link =Luigi Bianchi |title = Sui simboli a quattro indici e sulla curvatura di Riemann |trans-title= |journal = Rend. Acc. Naz. Lincei |volume =11 |issue=5 |pages =3–7 |year =1902 |language =Italian |url =https://archive.org/stream/rendiconti51111902acca#page/n9/mode/2up |doi = |jfm = }}</ref>
== Career == === Education === Voss studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Hannover, the University of Göttingen, and Heidelberg University between 1864 and 1868.
He received a PhD from the University of Göttingen the following year.
== Honors == He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering Sciences by TH Munich in 1915.
== Publications == *{{Citation |last = Aurel |first = Voss |author-link = |title = Die Prinzipien der rationellen Mechanik |trans-title= |place = |volume= In: Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften |publisher = |year = 1908 |pages = |language = German |url = http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN360617042%7CLOG_0007 |mr = |zbl = |isbn = }} *{{Citation |last = Aurel |first = Voss |author-link = |title = Differential- und Integralrechnung |trans-title= |place = |volume= In: Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften |publisher = |year = 1899 |pages = |language = German |url = http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN36050616X%7CLOG_0034 |mr = |zbl = |isbn = }}
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