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Heinrich Wieleitner
Heinrich Wieleitner (31 October 1874 – 27 December 1931) was a German mathematician and historian of mathematics. He became an honorary professor of mathematics at the University of Munich but for much of his career worked in school- and college-level education. Wieleitner was born in Wasserburg and was educated at the Catholic seminaries at Scheyern and Freising in theology but took an interest in mathematics, joining the University of Munich. He received a Lamont scholarship proposed by C. L. F. Lindemann and went on to receive a doctorate on third order surfaces (Über die Flächen dritter Ordnung mit Ovalpunkten) in 1901. He then became a mathematics teacher at the Speyer Gymnasium and in 1909 moved to Pirmasens before returning to Speyer as a headmaster of the Realschule. In 1926 he was promoted Oberstudiendirektor at Munich. He became interested in Italian work on geometry following his attendance of the International Congress of Mathematicians held at Heidelberg (1904) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's List of universities in Germany, sixth-oldest university in continuous operation. Originally University of Ingolstadt, established in Ingolstadt in 1472 by Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria, Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria-Landshut, the university was moved in 1800 to Landshut by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, King Maximilian I of Bavaria when the city was threatened by the French, before being relocated to its present-day location in Munich in 1826 by Ludwig I of Bavaria, King Ludwig I of Bavaria. In 1802, the university was officially named Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität by King Maximilian I of Bavaria in honor of himself and Ludwig IX. LMU is currently the second-largest university in Germany in terms of student population; in the 2018/19 winter semester, the university had a total of 51,606 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
