Heinrich Weber (mathematician)

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Heinrich Martin Weber

Heinrich Martin Georg Weber (born March 5, 1842 in Heidelberg , † May 17, 1913 in Strasbourg ) was a German mathematician .

Life

Heinrich Weber was the son of the historian Georg Weber . In 1860 he studied in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Königsberg . During his studies he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . He completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1866 and became an associate professor there in 1869 , but followed the call to ETH Zurich that same year . There he married Emilie Dittenberger in 1870, the daughter of the Weimar court preacher Theophor Wilhelm Dittenberger , who gave him her son Rudolf Heinrich Weber in 1874 .

From 1875 to 1883 he worked at the Albertus University in Königsberg ; Felix Klein described this period as "his best years". The important work "Theory of the algebraic functions of a variable" with Richard Dedekind also falls during this period . In 1880/81 he was Vice Rector of the Albertina . In 1883 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . The following years took him to the Technical University of Charlottenburg and the Philipps University of Marburg . There he was rector in 1890/91 . He moved to the Georg August University of Göttingen and finally in 1895 to the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . In 1900/01 he was rector here for the third time.

In 1895 and 1904 he was chairman of the German Mathematicians Association .

plant

Weber's work covers a wide spectrum within mathematics, and he has also worked extensively on linking different areas. The work "Theory of the algebraic functions of a variable" (together with Dedekind ) represents an algebraic foundation of the theory of Riemann surfaces up to the Riemann-Roch theorem . He also contributed significantly to the development of the class field theory .

Weber's work, and in particular his 1895 textbook on algebra , which was a standard work for a long time, also influenced the terminology; According to Hans Wußing , the term normal divider should come from Weber.

Named after Weber are the Kronecker-Weber theorem and - somewhat inconsistent - other sentences and various functions.

Publications

literature

  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon, Vol. 2: 1803-1932. 2. [revised u. extended] edition Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 3-658-26396-2 , p. 869 f.
  • Aurel Voss: Heinrich Weber. Annual report of DMV 23 (1914), pp. 431–444
  • Hans-Joachim Vollrath: Considerations on the development of algebra in teaching. Mathematical semester reports 38 (1991), 58–98 ( PDF )
  • Günter Kern: The Development of Mathematics at the University of Heidelberg 1835–1914 , 1992, pp. 76–80, 150–151 ( digital , pp. 33–34, 129–130)
  • Scheel, Katrin: The Correspondence Richard Dedekind - Heinrich Weber , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-037366-0 , doi: 10.1515 / 9783110368048 .
  • Günther Frei: Heinrich Weber and the emergence of class field theory , in: David Rowe, J. McCleary (Ed.), The History of Modern Mathematics, Volume 1, Academic Press 1989, pp. 425-450

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dedication / Festschrift Heinrich Weber The Founders of DMV ( Memento of August 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); in A. Voss' obituary there is a different information May 5. Roquette points out in Heinrich Weber, David Hilbert and K ̈onigsberg Peter Roquette (Heidelberg) ∗ June 1, 1992 (PDF; 850 kB) that the date of birth given in the obituary (and subsequently in many biographies) is wrong, probably through however, by mistake, he gives the obituary date as May 17th and the correct date as March 17th.
  2. ↑ http://www.allemannia.de/fileadmin/bilder_inhalt/Dateien/Max_Weber_Allemannia_Reinbach.pdf
  3. ^ Felix Klein, Lectures on the Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century , Part I. Julius Springer's Publishing House, Berlin 1926. p. 327
  4. ↑ a b c Rector's speeches
  5. ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Martin Weber at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 28, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Heinrich Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1913
Place of death Strasbourg