Conrad Muller
Conrad Heinrich Müller (born December 12, 1878 in Bremen , † January 9, 1953 in Hanover ) was a German mathematician , mathematical historian and Indologist.
Live and act
Conrad Müller went to high school in Stade and studied mathematics, science, philosophy and Sanskrit (with Franz Kielhorn in Göttingen) at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Berlin and Göttingen, a. a. with Felix Klein . In 1903 he received his doctorate in Göttingen ("Studies on the history of mathematics, in particular mathematical teaching at the University of Göttingen in the 18th century"). In 1904 he passed the teaching examination and then trained as a librarian at the Göttingen University Library (graduated in 1906). But then Klein made him his assistant and invited him to work on the encyclopedia of mathematical sciences . In 1910 he became professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Hanover (as the successor to Constantin Carathéodory , with whom he had been friends since his student days). In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He stayed in Hanover until his retirement in 1948. From 1919 to 1923 and 1945 to 1947 he was rector of the Technical University of Hanover (and during the Second World War he even took part in the fire fighting at the university after an air raid). The student aid organization and the canteen in Hanover were founded on his initiative. From 1936 he was secretary on the board of the German Mathematicians Association .
He was one of Klein's closest collaborators, with whom he was also friends, when he published the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences. After Klein's death he was in charge of the mechanics volumes. In Hanover he also worked on the Leibniz edition. He also published a work on the history of mathematics at the University of Göttingen, on John Napier , the beginnings of analysis at Leibniz, but especially on Indian mathematics, and others. a. the Sulvasutra , via Aryabhata and Bhaskara . A planned trip to India did not materialize because of the Second World War.
Honors
- 1923: Honorary citizen of the Technical University of Hanover
- 1931: Honorary Senator of the University
Fonts
- with Georg Prange : Textbook of Mechanics .
literature
- Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 9.
- Menso Folkerts : Müller, Conrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 448 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Wilhelm Quade: Conrad Müller (obituary), annual report DMV 57, 1954, pp. 1–5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Studies on the history of mathematics, especially mathematics teaching at the University of Göttingen , 1904.
- ↑ Natural Sciences 1914.
- ^ Descartes Geometry and the Justification of Higher Analysis , Sudhoffs Archiv, Volume 40, 1956, pp. 240-258.
- ↑ The mathematics of Sulvasutra. A Study on the History of Indian Mathematics , Abhandl. Math. Sem. Universität Hamburg Vol. 7, 1929, p. 173.
Directors: Karl Karmarsch (1831–1875) | Wilhelm Launhardt (1875–1880)
Rectors: Wilhelm Launhardt (1880–1886) | Karl Dolezalek (1886-1892) | Wilhelm Kohlrausch (1892–1895) | Albert Frank (1895–1898) | Heinrich Köhler (1898–1901) | Ludwig Kiepert (1901–1904) | Georg Barkhausen (1904–1907) | Hermann Ost (1907–1910) | Franz Frese (1910–1911) | Karl Mohrmann (1911–1913) | Robert Otzen (1913–1915) | Carl Heim (1915–1917) | Ludwig Troske (1917–1919) | Conrad Müller (1919–1923) | Ernst Vetterlein (1923–1925) | Fritz Oesterlen (1925–1927) | Friedrich Quincke (1927–1929) | Otto Blum (1929–1931) | Ludwig Klein (1931–1933) | Otto Franzius (1933–1934) | Horst von Sanden (1934–1937) | Hanns Simons (1937–1939) | Alexander Matting (1940-1943) | Helmut Pfannmüller (1943–1945) | Conrad Müller (1945–1947) | Otto Flachsbart (1947–1950) | Walter Großmann (1950–1951) | Hermann Deckert (1951–1952) | Walter Hensen (1952–1954) | Hans Schönfeld (1954–1956) | Johannes Schlums (1956–1957) | Walter Theilacker (1957–1958) | Wilhelm Nicolaisen (1958–1959) | Egon Martyrer (1959–1960) | Wilhelm Wortmann (1960–1961) | Hans-Oskar Wilde (1961–1963) | Albert Vierling (1963–1964) | Walter Renard (1964–1966) | Theodor Kaluza (1966–1968) | Alf Pflüger (1968–1969) | Eduard Pestel (1969–1970) | Hermann Böhrs (1970–1971) | Jürgen Wehrmann (1971–1972) | Lothar Hübl (1973–1974) | Gerhart Laage (1974–1975) | Hinrich Seidel (1975–1977) | Otwin Massing (1977–1978) | Klaus Schäfer (1978–1979)
President: Hinrich Seidel (1979–1997) | Ludwig Schätzl (1997–2005) | Erich Barke (2005–2014) | Volker Epping (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Conrad Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1953 |
| Place of death | Hanover |