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Johannes Tropfke
Johannes Tropfke (14 October 1866 – 10 November 1939) was a German mathematician and teacher, who is best remembered for his influential work on the history of mathematics ''Geschichte der Elementarmathematik'', which consists of seven volumes. Life Tropfke was born in Berlin at Marienstraße 14 as the older of two sons of the cabinet maker Franz Tropfke. The house in which Tropfke was born was built by his grandfather Franz Joseph Tropfke around 1830 and is one of the few houses in the area that was not destroyed during World War II. Tropfke grew up in Berlin and after his graduation from the Friedrichs-Gymnasium (high school) in 1884 he attended the university in Berlin to study sciences and mathematics. In 1889 he was awarded a degree to teach math and sciences at Gymnasium (Germany), gymnasiums (high schools). Later he earned a PhD in mathematics from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, University of Halle for a thesis on elliptic integrals (''Zur Darstellung d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Eneström
Gustaf Hjalmar Eneström (5 September 1852 – 10 June 1923) was a Swedish mathematician, statistician and historian of mathematics known for introducing the Eneström index, which is used to identify Euler's writings. Most historical scholars refer to the works of Euler by their Eneström index. Eneström received a Bachelor of Science (''filosofie kandidat'') degree from Uppsala university in 1871, received a position at Uppsala University Library in 1875, and at the National Library of Sweden in 1879. From 1884 to 1914, he was the publisher of the mathematical-historical journal ''Bibliotheca Mathematica'', which he had founded and partially funded with his own means. Concerning the history of mathematics, he was known as critical to Moritz Cantor. With Soichi Kakeya, he is known for the Eneström-Kakeya theorem which determines an annulus containing the roots of a real polynomial. In 1923 George Sarton wrote, "No one has done more for the sound development of our studies". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heads Of Schools In Germany
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German Historians Of Mathematics
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Michael Sean Mahoney
Michael Sean Mahoney (June 30, 1939 – July 23, 2008) was a historian of science. Mahoney was born in New York City, and did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, graduating in 1960. He earned a Ph.D. in history and history of science from Princeton University in 1967, and immediately took a position as an assistant professor there. He remained at Princeton for over 40 years, until his death in 2008. A conference on the history of science and technology was held in his honor at Princeton in May 2009. Fermat biography Mahoney's biography of Pierre de Fermat received much critical attention including a scathing review by André Weil in 1973.... A second edition of Mahoney's book came out in 1994. Selected publications *Mahoney, Michael Sean, The mathematical career of Pierre de Fermat. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1973. xviii+419 pp. *Mahoney, Michael Sean, The mathematical career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601–1665. Second edition. Princeton Paperbacks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmuth Gericke
Paul Fritz Helmuth Gericke (1909–2007) was a German mathematician and an historian of mathematics. Life Gericke was born in Aachen on 7 May 1909. From 1926 to 1931 he studied physics and mathematics at the universities of Greifswald, Marburg and Göttingen. In 1931, he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on the Volta effect. In 1934, he was an assistant to Wilhelm Süss in Freiburg. With Süss, he attained his habilitation in pure mathematics in 1941. After 1945, he helped Süss to further develop the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach. His interest in the history of mathematics was aroused by the work of Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann, whom he had met in Oberwolfach in 1945 and 1946. In 1947, he began to hold lectures in Freiburg on topics related to the history of mathematics. He also received support from Heinrich Behnke, which enabled him to publish his work. In 1952 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Freiburg. He took a professorship at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Reich
Karin Anna Reich is a German historian of mathematics. Career From 1967 to 1973 Reich was a scientific assistant at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the Institute for the History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where in 1973 she graduated under supervision of Helmuth Gericke. In 1980 she completed her time in Munich, publishing ''The development of tensor calculus'', in 1994 in a revised form as a book. In 1980 she became Professor of the History of Natural Science and Engineering at the Stuttgart College of Librarianship. In 1980/81 and 1981/82 she had a teaching assignment for the History of Mathematics at the University of Heidelberg. In 1981 she represented the Department of History of Science at the University of Hamburg. In 1982, she became associate professor and in 1988 Professor for History of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart. From 1994 until her retirement she was a professor at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eugene Smith
David Eugene Smith (January 21, 1860 – July 29, 1944) was an American mathematician, educator, and editor. Education and career David Eugene Smith is considered one of the founders of the field of mathematics education. Smith was born in Cortland, New York, to Abram P. Smith, attorney and surrogate judge, and Mary Elizabeth Bronson, who taught her young son Latin and Greek. He attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905). He studied to be a lawyer concentrating in arts and humanities, but accepted an instructorship in mathematics at the Cortland Normal School in 1884 where he attended as a young man. While at the Cortland Normal School Smith became a member of the Young Men's Debating Club (today the Delphic Fraternity.) He became a professor at the Michigan State Normal College in 1891 (later Eastern Michigan University), the principal at the State Normal School in Brockport, New York (1898), and a professor of mathematics at Teachers College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Gandz
Solomon Gandz (2 February 1883, Tarnobrzeg, Austria – 30 March 1954) was a historian of science. Gandz published on the history of mathematics and history of astronomy, astronomy in medieval Jewish and Islamic civilizations. From 1915 to 1919, Gandz was professor of Jewish theology and Jewish history in the gymnasium and realschule in Vienna. From 1923 to 1234, he was librarian and professor of Arabic and Medieval Hebrew at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York. From 1942 until his death in March 1954, he was research professor of the history of Semitic Civilization at the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (except for the war years when he was in government service). Selections from his collected works were published by KTAV Publishing House NY in 1970. "Studies in Hebrew Astronomy and Mathematics" by Solomon Gandz. Selected with an introduction by Professor Shlomo Sternberg of Harvard. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Vogel (historian)
Kurt Vogel (30 September 1888 – 27 October 1985) was a German historian of mathematics. Life and Work Vogel was born in Altdorf bei Nürnberg and attended school in Ansbach. From 1907 to 1911, he studied mathematics and physics with Max Noether, Paul Gordan, and Erhard Schmidt in Erlangen, and with Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Otto Toeplitz in Göttingen. He passed his examination to become a schoolteacher in 1911, then served as an army officer from 1913 to 1920 before taking a teaching post in Munich. In 1940, Vogel was appointed to a professorship at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he spent the remainder of his career. He studied a variety of mathematical texts from Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and Chinese scholars, such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. Self-taught in several ancient languages, Vogel produced German translations of al-Khwarizmi's ''On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals'' (from the Latin translation, ''Algoritmi de numero Indorum''), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
