Hermann Scheffler (physicist)

August Christian Wilhelm Hermann Scheffler (born October 10, 1820 in Braunschweig ; † August 14, 1903 there ) was a German engineer , mathematician and physicist .

August Scheffler also quotes.

Life

Scheffler had been working as a building supervisor and land surveyor since 1846 , became finance secretary in 1851 and finance assessor at the ducal railway and post office in Braunschweig in 1853. In 1854 Scheffler was made a building officer and in 1870 a senior building officer. In his time he was considered an important railway specialist, developed building and operating principles in the railway industry and wrote numerous mathematical and physical works. From 1876 to 1885 he was railway director in Braunschweig. On February 4, 1937, Jüdelstrasse in the Bebelhof was renamed Schefflerstrasse after him.

Fonts

• About the relationship between arithmetic and geometry. Brunswick 1846.
• The situation calculator. Brunswick 1851.
• The indefinite analytics. Hanover 1854.
• The polydimensional quantities. Brunswick 1880.
• The magical figures. Leipzig 1882.
• Mechanical principles of engineering. 2 volumes Braunschweig 1845.
• The principles of hydrostatics and hydraulics. 2 volumes Braunschweig 1847.
• The theory of vaults, lining walls and iron bridges. Brunswick 1857.
• The theory of strength against buckling. Brunswick 1858.
• About grid and floor supports and about the strength of the vessel walls. Braunschweig 1862.
• The causes of steam boiler explosions. Berlin 1867.
• The physiological optics. 2 volumes Braunschweig 1864–65.
• The laws of spatial vision. Braunschweig 1866.
• The theory of eye defects. Vienna 1868.
• Mortality and Insurance. Vienna 1868.
• The laws of nature and their connection with the abstract sciences. 4 parts and 3 suppl. Leipzig 1876–81.
• The theory of light. Leipzig 1883.
• The world according to human understanding. Leipzig 1885.
• The tax, income and monetary relationships and the natural right to choose. Berlin 1887.
• Basics of science. Braunschweig 1889.
• Contributions to the theory of equations. Leipzig 1891.
• Contributions to number theory. Leipzig 1891.
• The quadratic decomposition of the prime numbers. Leipzig 1892.
• The equivalence of natural forces and the law of energy as the law of the world. Leipzig 1893.
• The foundations of the world. Braunschweig 1896.
• The essence of mathematics and the structure of knowledge of the world on a mathematical basis. 2 volumes Braunschweig 1896.

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst and Sohn 2018, p. 230f, p. 305f, p. 313f, p. 785f and p. 1059f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9
• Achim Hettler and Karl-Eugen Kurrer: Earth pressure . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-433-03274-9 , pp. 341–343

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City Chronicle Braunschweig. Entries for 1937 (number: 99). In: braunschweig.de , accessed on October 5, 2013.