Emanuel Czuber

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Emanuel Czuber (born January 19, 1851 in Prague , † August 22, 1925 in Gnigl near Salzburg ) was an Austrian mathematician.

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Emanuel Czuber studied at the Polytechnic and at the Karl Ferdinands University (German University in Prague), where he was Karel Kořistka's assistant from 1872 . In 1876 he completed his habilitation there in geodesy. From 1874 to 1886 he was at the second German state secondary school in Prague, after his teaching examination in 1878 as a teacher. In 1878 he completed his habilitation ("Theory and Practice of Compensation Calculation"). In 1886 he became a full professor at the German Technical University in Brno , where he was rector in 1890/91. In 1891 he succeeded Anton Winckler as professor at the Technical University of Vienna , which he remained until his retirement in 1919. In 1894/95 he was rector there. He spent his old age on his country estate in Gnigl.

Czuber was mainly concerned with probability theory and actuarial mathematics, and he also worked on a commission for the insurance industry (on mortality statistics) and participated in the publication of the national mortality table for Austria in 1909/10. In addition, he held lectures on this in Vienna from 1894. In 1898 he was President of the Association of Austro-Hungarian Insurance Technicians. In 1916, he turned against state monopolies in a paper entitled The Future of Insurance in Austria . He wrote the article on probability theory in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences and several books. He was also active in mathematics education, u. a. as chairman of the Matura exams at secondary schools. In 1913 he published his thoughts on the reform of the technical universities .

In 1899 he became a councilor . In 1912 Czuber was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 1918 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich .

He had been married since 1878. His daughter Berta (born December 5, 1879 in Prague , † July 5, 1979 at Rottenstein Castle near Meran ) married Ferdinand Karl of Austria in 1909 .

In Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) the Czubergasse was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor: Antoine Meyer : Lectures on probability theory. Teubner, Leipzig 1879, ( digitized version ).
  • Geometric probabilities and means. Teubner, Leipzig 1884 ( digitized ; also translated into French: Probabilités & moyennes géométriques. A. Hermann, Paris 1902, digitized ).
  • Theory of observation errors. Teubner, Leipzig 1891, ( digitized version ).
  • Lectures on differential and integral calculus. 2 volumes. Teubner, Leipzig 1898.
  • The development of probability theory and its applications (= annual report of the German Mathematicians Association. Vol. 7, No. 2, ISSN  0012-0456 ). Teubner, Leipzig 1899, ( digitized ).
  • as translator and commentator: A. de Moivre's treatise on annuities. Publishing house of the Austro-Hungarian Association of Private Insurance Institutions, Vienna 1906.
  • Probability calculation and its applications to error correction, statistics and life insurance (= BG Teubner's collection of textbooks in the field of mathematical sciences. 9, ZDB -ID 1090293-4 ). Teubner, Leipzig 1903, (several editions, later two volumes).
  • Introduction to higher mathematics. Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1909.
  • The statistical research methods. Seidel, Vienna 1921, (several editions).
  • The philosophical foundations of the calculation of probability (= science and hypothesis. 24, ZDB -ID 972938-0 ). Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1923.
  • Mathematical population theory. Based on GH Knibbs' "The mathematical theory of population". Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1923, ( digitized ).

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SURNAME Czuber, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1925
Place of death Gnigl