Hans Heinrich Bürmann

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Hans Heinrich Bürmann (died June 21, 1817 in Mannheim ) was a German mathematician and teacher.

Life

From 1795 at the latest, he headed a commercial academy in which arithmetic, bookkeeping, commercial correspondence, bill of exchange law, commodity science, German, French, Italian and English were taught. His living conditions were difficult, so it was not until September 1808 that he received a salary of 1000 guilders “as Grand Ducal Director of the Baden Academy of Action, Professor of Mathematics and Censor”.

Scientifically, he worked in the field of combinatorics and contributed to the development of the symbolic language of mathematics . He discovered the generalized form of the Lagrange inversion formula and corresponded with Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Carl Friedrich Hindenburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cantor:  Bürmann, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 392-394.
personal data
SURNAME Bürmann, Hans Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1817
Place of death Mannheim