Adolf Schumann

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Adolf Schumann (born June 25, 1838 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † January 15, 1895 in Gries am Brenner ) was a German mathematics teacher in Berlin.

Life

Schumann visited the Saldria in Brandenburg and passed the Abitur at Easter 1858. He began to study mathematics and natural sciences at the Friedrichs-Universität and became active in the Philology Corps Neoborussia Halle . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , which made him Dr. phil. PhD. In October 1861 he began teaching as a scientific assistant teacher and trial candidate at the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin. The following month he passed the state examination for teaching at higher education institutions in front of the Kgl. scientific examination committee in Berlin. In 1862/63 he represented a sick teacher at the high school in his hometown. On April 1, 1863, he received a full teaching position at the Luisenstädtische Realschule in Berlin . On April 1, 1867, he was promoted to senior teacher there . When the Askanisches Gymnasium was founded, he was appointed to a senior teaching position and made a high school professor, and he died at the age of 56.

Publications

  • Investigations on base areas . Brandenburg 1863.
  • Geometric investigations on maxima and minima of figures, which are inscribed and circumscribed in an ellipse and an ellipsoid . Berlin 1864.
  • Relationships between surfaces related to the centers of curvature of curves . Berlin 1867.
  • A proof of the addition theorem for the hyperelliptic integrals . Math. Annals 1874.
  • Steiner's circle series and their relationship to Poncelet's closure theorem . Berlin 1883.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kössler's teacher lexicon
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 100/107.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: De curvis pedalibus .
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumann, Adolf Wilhelm Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German math teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1895
Place of death Gries on the burner