Maximilian Simon (born 8 June 1844 in Kołobrzeg; died 15 January 1918 in Strasbourg) was a German historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher. He was concerned mostly with mathematics in antiquity.
Max Simon | |
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 From a photo album of the Mathematische Gesellschaft (Hamburg) | |
| Born | 8 June 1844 |
| Died | 15 January 1918 (aged 73) |
| Alma mater | Friedrich Wilhelm University |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | De relationibus inter constantes duarum linearum secundi ordinis, ut sit polygonum alteri inscriptum circumscriptum alteri (1867) |
| Academic advisors | Karl Weierstrass, Ernst Eduard Kummer |
Born into a Jewish family,[1] he studied from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. from Karl Weierstrass und Ernst Eduard Kummer[2][3] 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
edit- 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 (Kuno Fladt ed.), Teubner 1925
- Analytische Geometrie der Ebene, 3rd edition, Sammlung Göschen 1900
- Analytische Geometrie des Raumes, 2 volumes, Sammlung Göschen 1900, 1901
References
edit- ^ Birgit Bergmann, Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture, Springer (2012), p. 155
- ^ Reinhard Bölling, ed. (1994). A Photo Album for Weierstrass. Vieweg+Teubner. ISBN 978-3-528-06602-4., p. 49 — backmatter (p.24ff) at springer.com
- ^ Max Simon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development. Birkhäuser, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0, (Science networks 27), p. 522.
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