Heinrich Burkhardt (mathematician)

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Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt (born October 15, 1861 in Schweinfurt , † November 2, 1914 in Neuwittelsbach near Munich ) was a German mathematician.

Heinrich Burkhardt

life and work

His mathematical talent was discovered and promoted while attending school in Ansbach . From 1879 he studied in Munich (at university and technical college), Berlin and Göttingen a. a. with Alexander von Brill , Karl Weierstrass , Hermann Amandus Schwarz . He received his doctorate in 1886 in Munich under Gustav A. Bauer with the dissertation Relationships between the invariant theory and the theory of algebraic integrals and their inversions . He then went to Göttingen as an assistant in 1887 and completed his habilitation there in 1889. In 1897 he became a full professor of mathematics at the University of Zurich and in 1908 at the TH Munich .

His research areas were the theory of elliptical functions, series developments in mathematical physics, group theory and the history of mathematics . He wrote several articles for the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences , u. a. on the history of the Fourier series, in which he breaks down the historical literature in great detail and at great length.

He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1909 extraordinary and 1912 full member), since 1896 he belonged to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

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SURNAME Burkhardt, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burkhardt, Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1914
Place of death Neuwittelsbach near Munich