Ernst Julius Amberg
Ernst Julius Amberg (born September 6, 1871 in Zurich ; † March 15, 1952 ) was a Swiss mathematician. In 1897 he was one of the organizers of the first International Mathematicians' Congress in Zurich.
Amberg studied mathematics at the Polytechnic in Zurich with the teacher diploma in 1894. He received his doctorate in 1897 from the University of Zurich under Adolf Hurwitz ( About a body whose numbers are rationally composed of two square roots ). As an assistant at the Polytechnic, he was one of the organizers of the first international mathematicians' congress, where he initially stood in for Johann Jakob Rebstein and finally became secretary. Other members were Hurwitz, Hermann Minkowski , Karl Geiser and Jérôme Franel . Afterwards he was a teacher at the canton school Frauenfeld and from 1903 successor of Walter Gröbli as high school professor in Zurich. From 1916 until his retirement in 1938 he was director of the grammar school. During the Second World War he took up teaching again. In addition to his teaching activities, he also worked as an actuary and from 1912 lecturer and from 1918 adjunct professor at the ETH Zurich. He taught mathematics didactics there until 1938 and also gave lectures at the University of Zurich.
Besides his dissertation, he only published on actuarial mathematics.
He was a keen mountaineer and headed the Zurich section of the Swiss Alpine Club for six years. He was married but had no children.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Ernst Julius Amberg. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Julius Amberg in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Amberg, Ernst Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1952 |