Arthur Hirsch (1866–1948) was a German
mathematician.
Life and work
Hirsch completed his schooling in
Königsberg in 1882 and then studied mathematics and physics in the universities of
Berlin and
Königsberg. Among his teachers at Königsberg were
David Hilbert
David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many a ...
and
Adolf Hurwitz
Adolf Hurwitz (; 26 March 1859 – 18 November 1919) was a German mathematician who worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory.
Early life
He was born in Hildesheim, then part of the Kingdom of Hanover, to a Jewish family and died ...
. In 1892 he received a doctorate from Königsberg for a thesis about
linear differential equations.
The following year, he took his ''docent habilitation'' at
Polytechnikum of Zurich, where he was, successively, assistant professor from 1893, titular professor from 1897 and ordinary professor from 1903 until his retirement in 1936.
The work of Hirsch is primarily on
differential equations and
hypergeometric functions. He published seven papers about it in ''
Mathematische Annalen
''Mathematische Annalen'' (abbreviated as ''Math. Ann.'' or, formerly, ''Math. Annal.'') is a German mathematical research journal founded in 1868 by Alfred Clebsch and Carl Neumann. Subsequent managing editors were Felix Klein, David Hilbert, ...
''. Hirsch was a member of the
Swiss Mathematical Society from his foundation in 1910.
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19th-century German mathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
1866 births
1948 deaths
Scientists from Königsberg
University of Königsberg alumni