Ernst Fiedler (1861–1954) was a Swiss (German born)
mathematician.
Life and work
Fiedler was the son of
Wilhelm Fiedler
Otto Wilhelm Fiedler (3 April 1832 in Chemnitz – 19 November 1912 in Zurich) was a German-Swiss mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry.
Life
Fiedler was the son of a shoemaker. He ...
, mathematics professor at
ETH Zurich
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from 1867. From 1879 to 1882 he studied mathematics at ETH Zurich; in 1882 he moved to Berlin where he studied under
Weierstrass,
Frobenius and other outstanding mathematicians. In 1885 he moved to Leipzig, where he was awarded a doctorate under
Felix Klein in 1885.
Returned to Zurich, he was ''privatdozent'' at ETH Zurich. In 1889 he was named full professor at the ''Industrieschule'' (in 1904 renamed as ''Oberrealschule'', and now ''
Kantonsschule Rämibühl
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''). He was the principal of the school from 1904 to 1926 when he retired.
Fiedler only produced some secondary school textbooks and any research paper. But he has left some lecture notes on courses given by his father and other professors like Weierstrass.
He also joined the Swiss Army and became the youngest colonel in the army. From 1889 he lectured on ballistics at the Polytechnicum. He was also member of a number of committees to improve the secondary schools.
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1861 births
1954 deaths
19th-century Swiss mathematicians
20th-century Swiss mathematicians
Emigrants from the German Empire
Immigrants to Switzerland