Felix Müller (mathematician)
Hermann Felix Müller (born April 27, 1843 in Berlin , † March 31, 1928 in Dresden-Loschwitz ) was a German mathematician and mathematics historian .
Life
He received his doctorate in Berlin in 1867 under Karl Weierstrass and Ernst Eduard Kummer with the thesis De transformatione functionis ellipticaris . In 1868 he entered Schellbach's mathematical-pedagogical seminar and in 1869 became an assistant teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and at a secondary school in Berlin and in 1870 a full teacher. Finally he became a senior teacher in 1882 and a professor at the Luisengymnasium in Berlin in 1887 . He retired in 1897 and then lived as a private person in Oberloschwitz and on the Weißen Hirsch near Dresden . Around 1900 he lived briefly in Berlin-Steglitz .
In 1869, together with Carl Ohrtmann , he founded the yearbook on the progress of mathematics , based on the model of the progress in physics , of which he was an editor until 1906.
As a mathematician, he was primarily concerned with the history of mathematical terminology and with bibliographical work.
From 1889 he was a member of the Leopoldina .
Works
- Carl Heinrich Schellbach. Commemorative speech given in the auditorium of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium on October 29, 1892 . Reimer, Berlin 1893. 35 pp.
- Guide to the mathematical literature. With special consideration of the historically important writings . Teubner, Leipzig 1909. (Kraus Reprint, 1979)
- Historical-etymological studies of mathematical terminology , 1887
- On the terminology of the oldest mathematical writings in the German language , Abhandlungen Geschichte Mathematik Vol. 9, 1899, pp. 301–333.
- The Yearbook on the Progress of Mathematics 1869-1904 , Bibliotheca Mathematica. 3rd episode, Vol. 5 (1904), pp. 292–297 ( Ext. Digital edition. Univ. Heidelberg, 2013)
- Karl Schellbach. Review of his scientific life , treatises on the history of the mathematical sciences including their applications., Volume 20 (1905), No. 1. pp. 3-40. Digitized Univ. Heidelberg
- Memorial diary for mathematicians . 3rd edition, Teubner, Leipzig 1912 (with a portrait of Müller from the Teubner archive) Review by Ernest W. Ponzer
literature
- Heinrich Begehr: The Berlin Mathematical Society: Origin, Foundation, New Foundation . Meeting reports of the Berlin Mathematical Society. Vol. 1997-2000, pp. 320f., 324.
- Poggendorff Vol. 3.946, 4.1039, 5.884, 6.1797
- Otto Neuendorff, Anne-Katrin Ziesak : Repertory of the letters from the Walter de Gruyter archive . Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 311016521X (on p. 203 engagement announcement from July 10, 1889; limited preview in the Google book search).
- Joseph Dauben, Christoph Scriba: Writing the history of mathematics . Birkhäuser 2002
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum, Max Neuberger, Karl Sudhoff: Communications on the history of medicine and the natural sciences, Volume 38-40, page 163, 1939
Web links
- Literature by and about Felix Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Felix Müller's personal data sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Müller, Felix |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Hermann Felix (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and mathematician historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1843 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1928 |
Place of death | Dresden-Loschwitz |