Maximilian Simon (born 8 June 1844 in
Kołobrzeg
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; died 15 January 1918 in
Strasbourg
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) was a German historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher. He was concerned mostly with mathematics in the antiquity.
Born into a
Jewish family, he studied from 1862 to 1866 at the
Friedrich Wilhelm University of
Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. from
Karl Weierstrass und
Ernst Eduard Kummer
He was a mathematics teacher in Berlin from 1868 to 1871, and in Strasbourg from 1871 to 1912, where he became an honorary professor of the
university.
Works
* ''Euclid und die sechs planimetrischen Bücher'', Teubner 1901
''Über die Entwicklung der Elementargeometrie im 19 Jahrhundert'' Bericht der
Deutschen Mathematikervereinigung, Teubner 1906
* ''Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte'', Berlin: B. Cassirer 1909
* ''Nichteuklidische Geometrie in elementarer Behandlung'' ( ed.), Teubner 1925
* ''Analytische Geometrie der Ebene'', 3rd edition, 1900
* ''Analytische Geometrie des Raumes'', 2 volumes, Sammlung Göschen 1900, 1901
References
*
Joseph W. Dauben
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,
Christoph J. Scriba
Christoph J. Scriba (6 October 1929 – 26 July 2013) was a German historian of mathematics.
Life and work
Scriba was born in Darmstadt and studied at ''Justus-Liebig-University Giessen''. He read James Gregory's early writings on the cal ...
(eds.): ''Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development''. Birkhäuser, Basel 2002, , (''Science networks'' 27), p. 522.
19th-century German Jews
19th-century German mathematicians
1844 births
1918 deaths
University of Strasbourg alumni
20th-century German mathematicians
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