CLEBSCH, Rudolf Friedrich Alfred. De motu ellipsoidis in fluido incompressibili viribus quibuslibet impulsi. Dissertatio inauguralis physico-mathematica.
Königsberg: Ernestus Julius Dalkowski, 1854.

First edition of Clebsch's doctoral thesis written under the supervision of Franz Neumann. "In 1850 Clebsch entered the University of Königsberg, where the school of mathematics founded by Jacobi was then flourishing. His teachers included the mathematical physicist Franz Neumann and the mathematicians Friedrich Richelot and Ludwig Otto Hesse, both pupils of Jacobi. After graduation, in 1854, he went to Berlin, where he was taught under the direction of Karl Schellbach at various schools. ... From 1868 until his death, he was professor at the University of Göttingen and in the forefront of contemporary German mathematics. In 1868 he and his friend Carl Neumann, son of Franz Neumann, founded the Mathematische Annalen. Clebsch’s doctoral dissertation at the University of Königsberg concerned a problem of hydrodynamics, and the main problems considered in the first period of his scientific career were in mathematical physics, especially hydrodynamics and the theory of elasticity." (D.S.B. III: 313-314).

4to: 249 x 204 mm. Old plain wrappers, a little browning and foxing. (4), 18, (2) pp.