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May 04, 1879 Barmen, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Died on 06 Sep 1914 (aged 35)
German mathematician
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About Werner Boy
- Werner Boy (German: [b??]; 4 May 1879 - 6 September 1914) was a German mathematician.
- He was the discoverer and eponym of Boy's surface—a three-dimensional projection of the real projective plane without singularities, the first of its kind.
- He discovered it in 1901 after his thesis adviser, David Hilbert, asked him to prove that it was not possible to immerse the real projective plane in three-dimensional space.
- Boy sketched several models of the surface, and discovered that it could have 3-fold rotational symmetry, but was unable to find a parametric model for the surface.
- It was not until 1978 that Bernard Morin found the first parametrisation, with the aid of computers.After completing his dissertation, Boy worked as a high school teacher in Krefeld, Germany.
- He later returned to his birth town of Barmen (today Wuppertal) to teach.
- He died as a soldier in the first weeks of World War I on 6 September 1914.
