Adolph Mayer
Adolph Mayer (also: Adolf Mayer ; * February 15, 1839 in Leipzig ; † April 11, 1908 in Gries near Bozen) was a German mathematician.
Life
Adolf Mayer was the son of the Leipzig merchant, banker and councilor Christian Adolph Mayer (1802–1875) and his wife Agnes geb. Frege (1809–1845), a descendant of Christian Gottlob Frege . He attended the Thomas School in Leipzig . He studied chemistry , mineralogy and, above all, mathematics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität , the Georg-August-Universität and the Universität Leipzig . Since 1859 he was a member of the Corps Hildeso-Guestphalia Göttingen . In 1861 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg. After continuing his studies at the Albertus University in Königsberg , he completed his habilitation in 1866 at the University of Leipzig. There he became an associate professor in 1871 and a full honorary professor in 1881. In 1882 Mayer became co-director of the mathematical seminar founded by Felix Klein . From 1890 to 1900 he was full professor in Leipzig. His research areas were partial differential equations , calculus of variations and analytical mechanics . Mayer was materially independent due to his origin. He was able to forego his salary for years in order to secure the livelihood of a younger colleague. He was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Mayer married Margarete Weigel (1845–1922), the daughter of the publisher Oswald Weigel, in Schönefeld (Leipzig) in 1872 . The couple had four children. Her son Christian Adolph Mayer (1874–1946) was a partner in the Meyer & Co. bank in Leipzig. Her daughter Sophie Pauline Mayer (1873–1964) married the diplomat Albert Dufour von Féronce (1868–1945) in 1892 .
Works
- Contributions to the theory of maxima and minima of simple integrals. Leipzig 1866.
- History of the principle of the smallest action. Leipzig 1877.
- Equilibrium conditions of frictionless point systems and the different types of equilibrium. 1899. ( digitized at Heidelberg University )
literature
- Siegfried Gottwald (ed.): Lexicon of important mathematicians. Harri Deutsch, Thun 1990, ISBN 3-8171-1164-9 .
- Otto Hölder : Adolph Mayer. Obituary. In: Reports on the negotiations of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig, mathematical-physical class. Volume 60, 1908, pp. 353-373 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University ).
- Rolf Klötzler : Adolph Mayer and the calculus of variations. In: Herbert Beckert , Horst Schumann (Ed.) 100 Years of Mathematical Seminar at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1981.
Web links
- Karl Strubecker: Mayer, Adolph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 532 f. ( Digitized version ).
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Adolph Mayer. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Overview of Adolph Mayer's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1867 to winter semester 1907)
- Adolph Mayer in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Gabriele Dörflinger: Adolph Mayer . A collection of material from Historia Mathematica Heidelbergensis .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 77/53
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer, Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mayer, Adolf; Mayer, Christian Gustav Adolph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1908 |
| Place of death | Semolina quirein near Bolzano |