Selmer

Selmer has multiple meanings and can refer to a surname, a town in the United States, or a well-known French maker of wind instruments. The name appears in various contexts across geography, mathematics, and music.

As a surname, Selmer is of Scandinavian origin. Notable individuals include Atle Selmer, a Norwegian mathematician whose work is associated with the Selmer group in number theory. The name is carried by others in different fields, reflecting its use as a family name in several countries.

Selmer, Tennessee, is a city in McNairy County, United States. It is one of the communities that bear the name in North America and serves as part of the region’s local geography and history.

Henri Selmer & Cie., known as Selmer Paris, is a French manufacturer of woodwind instruments. Founded in Paris in 1881 by Henri Selmer, the company is renowned for its saxophones and clarinets. The Selmer brand has become associated with high-quality professional instruments and is now part of Conn-Selmer, a major North American distributor and manufacturer of wind instruments.

In mathematics, the Selmer group is a construct in arithmetic geometry associated with an abelian variety and a Galois representation. Named after Atle Selmer, the group helps organize information about rational points and is a key tool in the study of Diophantine equations.