Carl Kostka (mathematician)
Carl Gottfried Franz Albert Kostka (born December 3, 1846 in Lyck , East Prussia , † December 28, 1921 in Insterburg ) was a German mathematician.
Life
Kostka studied in Königsberg from 1863 to 1868 and then went to school. From 1869 he was an assistant teacher at the secondary school in Elbing and from 1870 a full teacher, from 1877 senior teacher and from 1887 professor at the grammar school in Insterburg, which he remained until 1914.
He dealt with combinatorics and Kostka numbers, which he introduced in 1882, are named after him. They indicate the number of Young tableau with two rows that are of the semi-standard type (i.e. the numbers of the partition entered in the tableau only increase strictly monotonically in the columns, only monotonically in the rows, whereby a number occurs more than once may and another may be missing).
In 1918 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1920 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen .
Fonts
- About the connection of some forms of symmetrical functions, Journal für Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, Volume 93, 1882, pp. 89–123, digitized
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry of Carl Kostka at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 16, 2016.
- ↑ Life data according to Michael Toeppel, general directory of members of the German Mathematicians Association 1890-1990, Munich 1991
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kostka, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kostka, Carl Gottfried Franz Albert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyck , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1921 |
| Place of death | Insterburg |