Gottfried Rückle
Gottfried Martin Rückle (born June 7, 1879 in Rödelheim ; † 1929 there ) was a German mathematician and mental calculator .
Life
Rückle went to grammar school in Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate in 1901 with David Hilbert in Göttingen with a thesis on number theory (the quadratic reciprocity laws in algebraic number fields). He appeared as an arithmetic artist in variety shows. During World War I he performed ballistic calculations for the military.
Rückle had an excellent number memory that was visually oriented. At the age of 12 he knew all prime numbers up to 1000 by heart. It took him 13 minutes to learn a sequence of 204 digits and could recite it in 78 seconds.
Fonts
- Practice of numerical calculation, Rom-Verlag, R. Otto Mittelbach, Charlottenburg 1925
Individual evidence
- ^ CV in his dissertation
- ↑ Gottfried Rückle in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Chronicle of Rödelheim
- ↑ Diligence of the gifted and gifted , 2003
- ^ Alfred Leopold Müller New Memory Laws: Their Application in Teaching and Life , Leipzig-Eutritzsch, "Die Geistesforschung", 1922, p. 51
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| SURNAME | Rückle, Gottfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rückle, Gottfried Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and mental calculator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rödelheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1929 |
| Place of death | Rödelheim |