Arthur Czwalina

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Arthur Gottlieb Czwalina , also Czwalina-Allenstein, (born May 5, 1884 in Posen ; † April 28, 1964 in Berlin-Wannsee ) was a German mathematician and translator of ancient Greek mathematics.

Life

Czwalina was the son of a district judge and went to school in Berlin-Schöneberg , where he graduated from high school in 1902. He studied mathematics, physics and geography for teaching at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and at the Philipps-Universität Marburg . In 1906 he passed his state examination for teaching qualifications in Berlin and was a trainee teacher at the Friedrichwerder Gymnasium in Berlin. 1914–1916 he was a soldier in the First World War. With a doctoral thesis under Kurt Hensel , he received his doctorate in Marburg in 1918. He was then a grammar school teacher in Allenstein (director of studies at the Oberrealschule from 1919) and from 1923 until his retirement in 1937 in Gumbinnen (director of studies at the Friedrichsschule Gumbinnen ). After that he was still a teacher at the Niesky Pedagogy from 1939 to 1945 . From the 1950s he lived in Berlin.

He translated works of ancient Greek mathematics by Apollonios of Perge , Diophantos of Alexandria , Archimedes , Cleomedes , Autolykos of Pitane , Theodosios of Tripoli and others (with commentary) into German.

He had been married since 1911 and had five children.

Translations

  • Arithmetic of Diophantos from Alexandria. From d. Greek transfer u. explained by Arthur Czwalina. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1952 (Appendix 1 to the treatises from the Mathematical Seminar of the University of Hamburg).
  • Apollonius: Die Kegelschnitte, Munich 1926, reprint Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1967
  • Archimedes: Abhandlungen, Ostwalds Klassiker , Leipzig 1996 (first published as Ostwalds Klassiker Volume 201, 202, 203, 210 1922/23)
  • Archimedes, Works, Scientific Book Society 1963
  • Autolycus: rotating sphere and rise and fall of the stars; Theodosius of Tripoli: Sphaerik, Ostwalds Klassiker, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1931
  • Cleomedes: The circular motion of the stars, Ostwald's classic, 1927

literature

  • Renate Tobies Biographical Lexicon in Mathematics for PhDs, Rauner Verlag 2006, online at DMV
  • Gottwald, Illgauds, Schlote Lexicon of Important Mathematicians , 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Obituary in Sudhoffs Archiv, Vol. 49, Issue 4 (1965), pp. 435–437, JSTOR 20775248
  2. Dissertation: The quadrature of the spiral cone .