Georg Scheffers
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Georg Wilhelm Scheffers (born November 21, 1866 in Altendorf near Holzminden ; † August 12, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician who mainly dealt with differential geometry .
Life
Scheffers studied from 1884 at the University of Leipzig with Sophus Lie and Felix Klein . In 1890 he received his doctorate there under Lie ("Determination of a class of contact transformation groups of the threefold expanded space"). From 1896 he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he became a professor in 1900. From 1907 until his retirement in 1935 he was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1910 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1911 to 1912 he was rector of the university.
Inspired by Lie, Scheffers worked on the geometry of contact transformations (about which he wrote a book with Lie) and translation surfaces ( "Abelian and Liesche theorem on translation surfaces", Acta Mathematica 1904). He also edited Lie lectures (on Lie groups).
Scheffers is the author of a number of textbooks that were widespread at the time (he also published the analysis textbook by Joseph Serret in German translation) and several popular science books.
Fonts
- Mathematics textbook - for self-teaching and for students of science and technology. An introduction to differential and integral calculus and analytical geometry , 14th edition, Berlin, De Gruyter 1958
- How do you find and draw graticules of land and star maps? , Teubner 1934
- All sorts of geometry from drawing , Quelle and Meyer 1930
- Application of differential and integral calculus to geometry
- Descriptive Geometry Textbook , Springer 1919
- with Lie: Geometry of Touch Transformations, Vol. 1 , Teubner 1896
- "Special transcendent curves", encyclopedia of the mathematical sciences 1903
- Literature by and about Georg Scheffers in the catalog of the German National Library
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Georg Scheffers. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Overview of Georg Scheffers' courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1892 to summer semester 1896)
- Scheffers, Georg Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of August 12, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Georg Scheffers at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 21, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheffers, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scheffers, Georg Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1945 |
| Place of death | Berlin |