Hans von Mangoldt (mathematician)
Hans Karl Friedrich von Mangoldt (born May 18, 1854 in Weimar , Thuringia , † October 27, 1925 in Danzig -Langfuhr) was a German mathematician and royal Prussian Privy Councilor .
Life
Mangoldt studied mathematics with Karl Weierstrass and Ernst Eduard Kummer at the Königlichen Gewerbeinstitut Berlin , his dissertation , submitted in 1878, was entitled: On the representation of the roots of a three-part algebraic equation through infinite series . Then he was a math teacher at the Protestant grammar school in Strasbourg . He completed his habilitation with Ferdinand von Lindemann at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and was appointed to a chair at the University of Hanover in 1894 .
Two years later he went to RWTH Aachen . Because of his services beyond mathematics, he became the founding rector of the Technical University of Danzig in 1904 . His successor in Aachen was Otto Blumenthal . For his proof (1895) of a theorem by Bernhard Riemann on the zeta function (1859), the Riemann-von Mangoldt formula was also named after him. A Mangoldt function is also named after his name. Mangoldt became known for his widespread textbook Introduction to Higher Mathematics (4 volumes), which Konrad Knopp continued after his death . The book is still published today.
In 1919 he was President of the German Mathematicians Association . In 1924 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
family
He came from an old eastern noble family from Posern near Weissenfels ( Saxony-Anhalt ) and was the son of the economist Hans von Mangoldt (1824–1868), professor of political science and economist , and Luise von Lengerke (1834–1920). Mangoldt married Gertrud Sauppe on April 1, 1886 in Göttingen ( Lower Saxony ) (* April 23, 1860 in Göttingen; † July 13, 1946 in Wilster , Steinburg district , Schleswig-Holstein ), the daughter of the philology professor Hermann Sauppe and Emilie Nüscheler. His son was the lawyer Hermann von Mangoldt (1895–1953).
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume XXIV, page 240, volume 111 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1996, ISSN 0435-2408
- Rudolf Fritsch : Mangoldt, Hans von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 31 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Konrad Knopp : Hans von Mangoldt † . Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association 36 (1927), pp. 332–348.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans von Mangoldt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 159.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mangoldt, Hans von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mangoldt, Hans Karl Friedrich von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar , Thuringia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1925 |
| Place of death | Danzig - Langfuhr |