Christian Kramp
Christian Kramp (born July 8, 1760 in Strasbourg ; † May 13, 1826 there ) was an Alsatian doctor , mathematician and physicist .
Life
His father was a teacher at the high school in Strasbourg. Kramp studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg . He then worked in the wide area around Strasbourg as a traveling doctor to Speyer , Meisenheim and Homberg and received his doctorate in 1786 at the University of Strasbourg.
Kramp tried very hard to use mathematical methods in medicine. In addition to a large number of medical works, he also published a work on crystallography in 1793 . When France finally took over the left bank of the Rhine in 1795 ( Département de la Roer ), Kramp took a position as a teacher of physics and chemistry at the Cologne Central School . In 1809 he became professor of mathematics at the University of Strasbourg. In 1812 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . From 1817 he was a corresponding member of the Paris Académie des sciences .
His mathematical work includes the introduction of the term for the faculty . Like Leonhard Euler , Friedrich Bessel , Adrien-Marie Legendre, and Carl Friedrich Gauß, he also worked on their generalization to real numbers . These works, although similar, were created independently of James Stirling and Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde . At the same time, Louis François Antoine Arbogast was also working on the problem of generalization.
Fonts (selection)
- History of aerostatics, carried out historically, physically and mathematically. Academic bookshop, Strasbourg 1784 ( digitized ).
- Appendix to the history of aerostatics. Academic bookshop, Strasbourg 1786 ( digitized ).
- Analysis of réfractions astronomiques et terrestres. Dannbach, Strasbourg 1799 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Siegmund Günther : Kramp, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 31 f.
- Siegfried Gottwald , Hans-Joachim Ilgauds , Karl-Heinz Schlote : Lexicon of important mathematicians . German, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-8171-1164-9 .
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Christian Kramp. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kramp, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor, mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1826 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |