Edmund Hess

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Adolf Edmund Hess (born February 17, 1843 in Marburg ; † December 24, 1903 there ) was a German mathematician who dealt with polytopes .

Life

As the son of the pharmacist Christian Hess , Hess graduated from high school in Marburg in 1860. As a student at the Philipps University of Marburg , he became active in the Corps Teutonia Marburg . As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1864 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. He completed his habilitation two years later as an assistant at the Physics Institute . In 1879 he was appointed associate professor and in 1892 full professor .

He published a number of papers on regular polytopes and discovered several new ones. He listed the 10 regular star bodies . New ones among them were, among other things, the penetration of ten tetrahedra , penetration of five tetrahedra , penetration of five cubes , penetration of five octahedra . He published the Krystallometrie by Johann Friedrich Christian Hessel in 1897 for Ostwald's classic of the exact sciences .

He was married to Luise born in 1875 . Wagner from Marburg. He had two children with her.

Honors

See also

Fonts

  • About the regular polytopes of a higher kind . Meeting reports of the Society for the Promotion of All Natural Sciences in Marburg, 1885, pp. 31–57
  • About the number and position of the images of a point with three plan mirrors forming a corner , meeting reports of the Society for the Promotion of All Natural Sciences in Marburg 1888.
  • About the Archimedean polyhedra of a higher kind . Kassel 1878.
  • Introduction to the theory of the division of spheres: with special consideration of its application to the theory of equilateral and equilateral polyhedra . Teubner, Leipzig 1883.
  • About the polyhedra, which are both equiangular and equilateral . Meeting reports of the Society for the Promotion of All Natural Sciences in Marburg, 1876.

literature

  • Obituary in: Journal for mathematical teaching 35 (1904), pp. 439–443 (with portrait and list of publications)
  • Wilhelm Loren: Heß, Edmund , in: Ingeborg Schnack (ed.): Life pictures from Kurhessen and Waldeck 1830–1930 . Second volume. Marburg 1940, pp. 208-216.
  • HSM Coxeter : Regular Polytopes . Dover 1973 (on his work, brief biographical information p. 286)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5692, p. 484 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 166/393.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: About the outflow of air from narrow openings .
  4. ↑ a b c H. E. de Wyl (ed.): Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia zu Marburg 1825–2000 (= list of members)
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Adolph Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1903
Place of death Marburg