Gustav Bauer (mathematician)

Gustav Conrad Bauer (born November 18, 1820 in Augsburg , † April 3, 1906 in Munich ) was a German mathematician and university professor .

Life

Family and education

Gustav Bauer, son of of Hoheneck in Ludwigsburg originating merchant Conrad Michael Bauer and the Luise Euphrosyne born Graberg, put 1837 his Abitur at the grammar school St. Anna from. He turned as a direct result of the study of mathematics at the Polytechnic School of Augsburg and at the Universities of Erlangen , Vienna and Berlin , with Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet to 1842 took place in Erlangen his promotion to Dr. rer. nat. Gustav Bauer then continued his studies in Paris with Joseph Liouville , among others, until 1843 .

Gustav Bauer married Amalie in 1862, the daughter of the archivist and honorary professor Nathanael von Schlichtegroll . From this marriage came two daughters and the son Gustav junior . He died in Munich in 1906 at the age of 86.

Professional background

After Bauer had applied in vain for a job in the school service after graduating, he was employed as an educator in the house of Prince Ghica in what is now Romania from 1845 to 1853 . 1857 spent Bauer three months England , after his return habilitated himself as a lecturer for the subject of mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , where he was in 1865 for extraordinary 1869 full professor promoted in 1900, he was simultaneously appointed Privy retired .

Admitted to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as a full member in 1871 , he dealt in particular with geometric problems, spherical functions , the gamma function and continued fractions . Bauer's conic sections are named after him. In 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Publications

• From the integrals of certain differential equations that occur in the theory of attraction, Wild, Munich, 1857
• About Pascal's Theorem , in: Volume 16 of Abhandlungen der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse, Verlag der Akademie, Munich, 1873
• Commemorative speech for Otto Hesse : held at the public meeting of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich to celebrate its one hundred and twenty-third foundation days on March 28, 1882, Verlag der Akademie, Munich, 1882
• From the Hessian determinant of the Hessian surface, a third-order surface, Verlag der Akademie, Munich, 1883
• About the representation of binary forms as sums of power and in particular a form of the degree 2 n̲ as a sum of n̲ + 1 powers, printed by the Akademische Buchdruckerei by F. Straub, Munich, 1892
• Memories from my academic years, especially with regard to the development of mathematics at that time: Festive lecture on the XVI. Foundation festivals on July 7, 1893, Buchdh. H. Wolf & S., Munich, 1893
• Lectures on algebra, BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1903

literature

• Georg Faber :  Bauer, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 638 ( digitized version ).
• Laetitia Boehm , Johannes Spörl , University of Munich: The Ludwig Maximilians University in its faculties, Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1972, ISBN 3-428-02702-7 , p. 396.
• Michael-Markus Toepell: Mathematicians and mathematics at the University of Munich: 500 years of teaching and research, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Munich, 1996, p. 193.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 1, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 325.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Bauer in the catalog of the German National Library