Adam Nell

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Adam Maximilian Nell (born May 20, 1824 in Mainz , † June 11, 1901 in Worms ) was a German mathematician and cartographer .

Life

Adam Nell, son of Alois Nell and Sabine Lennig, studied architecture and mechanics at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe from 1841 . During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity . In 1847 he went to today's TU Darmstadt to continue his architecture studies. In the autumn of 1848 he finished his studies and then became a teacher of mathematics at the secondary school in Mainz.

On March 1, 1852, Nell applied for admission to the doctoral examination at the Philosophical Faculty of Heidelberg University, majoring in astronomy and minor subjects in mechanics, physics and mathematics. His test script was a proposal for a new chart projection . In the same year he applied for admission to the habilitation . The inaugural dissertation , which has now been printed, served as a habilitation thesis . On May 6th, Nell gave a trial lecture on the subject of the various methods of determining the size and shape of the earth and successfully completed his habilitation six days later with the disputation . Subsequently, Nell became a private lecturer and dealt with astronomical and physical topics.

In October 1852 he was offered the management of the Mannheim observatory . He then gave lectures on mathematics and astronomy in order not to lose his rights as a private lecturer. From 1872 to 1898 Nell was a full teacher of mathematics at the higher trade school in Darmstadt .

literature

  • Britta Bernecker: Creation of ID cards of selected azimuthal images of the sphere and the ellipsoid of revolution . Student thesis of the University of Stuttgart, 1998. Online ( Memento from July 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 883 kB)
  • John Parr Snyder: Flattening the earth: two thousand years of map projections . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1993, ISBN 0-226-76747-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Georg Kirschner: Directory of members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia . 1966.
  • Günter Kern: The development of mathematics at the University of Heidelberg 1835-1914 . 1992. pp. 55-57, 146-147. ( digital , pp. 25–26 and 126)