Gideon Jan Verdam

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Gideon Jan Verdam

Gideon Jan Verdam (born December 2, 1802 in Mijdrecht , † October 29, 1866 in Leiden ) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist.

Life

The son of a notary, initially wanted to pursue a military career. He therefore attended the cadet school in Delft . Following his father's request, he began studying mathematics and physics in 1819. On January 14, 1822, he enrolled at the University of Leiden . After answering five different prize questions in Gent, Leiden, Groningen and Utrecht, each of which was awarded a gold medal, he received his doctorate in philosophy on October 1, 1825 with the treatise over bedijking, derzelver afmetingen, aanleg en voorziening . In 1826 he became a lecturer for applied mechanics at the University of Groningen and from 1828 he worked as a secondary school teacher in The Hague. On August 27, 1839, he was appointed associate professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Leiden by royal resolution.

His teaching assignment included, in particular, geometry, trigonometry, stereometry, differential calculus and integral calculus. He took up this office on November 30, 1839 with the speech over het groote aandeel dat aan de gezette nasporingen en schoone ontdekkingen der latere wiskundigen toekwam in de vorderingen en verbetering the industrial council . On April 5, 1845 he became a full professor in Leiden, where his teaching assignment dealt with arithmetic, general mathematics, algebra and mechanics. He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in 1852/53 . He laid down this task with the speech over het maar al te zeer Verwaarloozen eener stelselmatige method vanbehing en onderzoek bij de wiskundigen, die het ijverigst hunne wetenschap volmaken en er de border meest van uitbreiden . Weakened by a breast disease, he died at the age of sixty.

Verdam became Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion in 1858 , in 1866 a member of the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem, a member of the Society of Experimental Philosophy in Rotterdam, in 1866 a member of the Provincial Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences, corresponding member of the natural history association in Dutch India, Foreign member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in Prague , member of the institute in 1833, as well as member of the successor institution of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam in 1851 and extraordinary member of the Royal Scientific Society (KWG) in 1853 .

Verdam married on July 18, 1833 in Leiden Johanna Frederika Jacoba Hagen (born September 22, 1806 in Alkmaar, † October 30, 1871 in The Hague), the daughter of Jacob Hagen and Elisabeth Johanna Droeze. There are three children from the marriage. Two sons died young. His only daughter Pauline Adriana Verdam (born May 24, 1837 in The Hague; † March 28, 1867 in Jakarta) married on August 13, 1857 in Leiden with the head of the geographic service in East India, Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans . Willem Adrianus Verdam (born February 7, 1842 in Leiden, † September 27, 1861 in Jakarta) is known from his sons as 2nd lieutenant in the artillery.

Works (selection)

In addition to some specialist articles in the scientific journals of his time, there are also independently published works from his pen.

  • De superficierum regularium angulis et soliditate. Groningen 1823
  • Data duorum locorum differentia latitudinis et linea loxodromica, invenire differentiam longitudinis eorundem. Gent 1823, ( online )
  • De Theoria maximis et minimis explicetur et variis exemplis. Leiden 1824 ( online )
  • De vi qua corpus e Luna sit projiciendum in tellurem. Leiden 1825
  • Diss. Phil. in qua ratione mathematica et physica quaeruur de mensura, constructione et munitione aggerum terrarum ad lacus, fluvios et mare from aquis humioribus arcenda. Leiden 1825 ( online )
  • Over de gronden the toegepaste work certificate. 1829-1837, 4th vol .; Translated into German by Christian Heinrich Schmidt Weimar 1834–1838 4th vol., 2nd ed. 1848
  • Summary of the geometries of the regular trigonometry. Leiden 1844, 1850, 1858
  • Summarium of spherical trigonometry. Suffer. 1844.
  • Handleiding tot de kennis van eenige gronden en beschouwingen, noodig tot understood the toepassingen van de Sphaerische Trigonometry op de mathematische Geographie en op de Sphaerische Astronomie. Suffer. 1844, 1856
  • Summarium of the beginselen, beschouwingen en voorschriften ontleend aan de redeneerkunde en welker kennis noodzakelijk is voor het verstand en het gebruik the knowledgeable method. Suffer. 1848, 1850 ( online ), 1857
  • J. de Gelder, Beginselen der differentiaal-Integraal en variatierekening. The Hague 1856
  • Negotiating over de least squares method. Groningen 1850, 1852
  • Oratio Rectoralis de recta pertractandi et veri investigandi ratione systematica mathematicis neglecta, diligentissimo studio disciplinas mathematicas perficientibus earumque ambitus anplificantibus. Leiden 1853, ( online )
  • Handboek of spherical trigonometry. Suffer. 1866.

literature

  • Johann August Grunert: Archive of Mathematics and Physics. CA Koch, Greifswald, 1866, JG 46, p. 537 (Lit. B. 1, online )
  • CJ Matthes: Levensberigt van Gideon Jan Verdam . In: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. CG van der Post, Amsterdam, 1866, p. 56 ( online )
  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem 1876, vol. 19, p. 133, ( online , Dutch)
  • DB d. H: GJ Verdam. 1866, ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Verdam, Gideon Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verdam, Gideon Janus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Mijdrecht
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1866
Place of death Suffer