Antonie Frans Monna

Antonie Frans Monna (born March 10, 1909 in The Hague ; † October 7, 1995 in De Bilt near Utrecht ) was a Dutch mathematician and mathematician.

Life

Monna studied at the University of Leiden (completing her doctoral examination in 1933), among others with Paul Ehrenfest and Willem van der Woude , and received her doctorate in 1935 with Johannes Droste on the Dirichlet problem (published as a book in 1935 in The Hague: "Het probleem van Dirichlet"), where essential suggestions came from studying a book by Jacques Hadamard . He then taught at grammar schools in The Hague and Middelburg , worked in a laboratory for technical physics in 1936 (at C. Zwikker in Delft ) and from 1937 in the insurance industry (Eerste Nederlandsche Verzekering-Maatschappij), where he worked in Dordrecht .

Monna worked for the Ministry of Education in The Hague from 1942 before going to Utrecht University in 1961 , where he became professor in 1965 and retired in 1979. In the 1960s he was a member of the Dutch state committee for the modernization of mathematics teaching and had close contact with Hans Freudenthal in this area from an early age .

Monna initially dealt with potential theory. He had been corresponding with Marcel Brelot in France since 1938 and so came into contact early on with Bourbaki's ideas , which made a great impression on him. From the 1940s he also dealt with p-adic numbers and p-adic Banach spaces. In 1966 he organized the Local Fields conference in Driebergen with Tonny Albert Springer .

In 1973 he wrote a history of functional analysis ("Functional analysis in historical perspective", Utrecht). In 1978 he published an anthology about Carl Friedrich Gauß .

literature

• Monna analysis non-archimédienne , Springer 1970
• Monna Functional Analysis in historical perspective , Wiley 1973
• Monna, Dirk van Dalen Sets and Integration. An outline of the development , Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, 1972
• Monna Methods, concepts and ideas in mathematics: aspects of an evolution , CWI Tracts, 1986
• Monna Dirichlet's Principle. A mathematical comedy of errors and its influence on the development of analysis , Oosthoek, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht 1975
• Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (Ed.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development . Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0 , ( Science networks 27).
• Adriaan Monna, Marius van der Put Antonie Frans Monna: Ambtenaar en wiskundige , Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, June 2004, p. 136, online