Felix Müller (mathematician)

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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

  1. ^ Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum, Max Neuberger, Karl Sudhoff: Communications on the history of medicine and the natural sciences, Volume 38-40, page 163, 1939

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personal data
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