Anton von Braunmühl (mathematician)

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Anton von Braunmühl (also: Johann Anton Edler von Braunmühl ; * December 22, 1853 in Tiflis , † March 7, 1908 in Munich ) was a German mathematician .

He was born as the son of the architect Anton von Braunmühl and his wife Anna Maria geb. Schlenz was born in Tbilisi. After the early death of their father in 1858, the family returned to Munich. From 1873 he studied mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , a. a. with Gustav Bauer , Friedrich Narr and Ludwig Seidel ; in addition, he attended lectures in cultural history, astronomy and physics. For a few semesters he switched to Johann Nikolaus Bischoff , Alexander Brill and Felix Klein at the Technical University of Munich . When he returned to Ludwig Maximilians University, he received his doctorate there in 1878 under Ludwig Seidel with a thesis on geodetic lines on surfaces of revolution . From 1877 to 1888 he worked as a grammar school teacher at the Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich and at the same time after his habilitation in 1884 as a private lecturer at the Technical University of Munich (today Technical University of Munich ); In 1888 he was appointed associate professor and in 1892 full professor. In 1897 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 1879 he married Franziska Stölzl; the marriage has two daughters.

Braunmühl mainly dealt with the history of trigonometry . His story of mathematics , which was still unfinished at the time of his death, was completed posthumously by his student and companion Heinrich Wieleitner . Around 1900 he was one of the leading mathematical historians in German-speaking countries, along with Moritz Cantor , Maximilian Curtze and Siegmund Günther . He wrote the chapters Trigonometry, Polygonometry, Tables in the fourth volume of the lectures on the history of mathematics by Moritz Cantor (1908), who deals with the 18th century. He had a mathematical history seminar in Munich, at which, among others, Axel Anthon Bjørnbo was, who did his doctorate with him.

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  • Lectures on the history of trigonometry. 2 volumes. Teubner, Leipzig 1900–1903;
    • Volume 1: From the earliest times to the invention of logarithms.
    • Volume 2: From the invention of logarithms to the present.
  • Christoph Scheiner as a mathematician, physicist and astronomer (= Bavarian Library. Vol. 24, ZDB -ID 990901-1 ). Buchner, Bamberg 1891.
  • as editor with the participation of numerous colleagues with Walther von Dyck , Felix Klein , Alexander von Brill and Guido Hauck : Catalog of mathematical and mathematical-physical models, apparatus and instruments. Wolf, Munich 1892-1893.
  • Nassîr Eddîn Tûsi and Regiomontan. In: Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum. Vol. 71, No. 1, 1897, ZDB -ID 210351-5 , pp. 34-67.
  • Contributions to the history of integral calculus. In: Atti del [2nd] Congresso Internationale di Scienze Storiche (Roma, April 1-9, 1903) , Vol. 12, 1904, pp. 271-284. ( Digitized version of Heidelberg University )

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SURNAME Braunmühl, Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braunmühl, Johann Anton Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1908
Place of death Munich