Heinrich Suter

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Heinrich Suter

Heinrich Suter (born January 4, 1848 in Hedingen , † March 17, 1922 in Dornach ) was a Swiss historian of science who was considered the best expert on Islamic mathematics and astronomy at the time.

Life

Suter was in 1848 as the son of a postmaster in the Swiss Hedingen , Canton of Zurich born. Attended the Zurich industrial school, later studies in Berlin (1869/70) and Zurich (both at the ETH Zurich and at the University of Zurich ). Suter received his doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1871 ( history of mathematical sciences from the earliest times to the end of the 16th century , published as a book in 1872). His history of mathematics has also been translated into Russian.

1874 Start of teaching as vicar at the grammar school Schaffhausen , from 1876 to 1886 in Aarau , from 1886 until his retirement in 1916 in Zurich.

Suter learned the Arabic language at the age of 40, and he also acquired some knowledge of Syrian, Persian and Turkish. Since then he has been researching the history of mathematics and astronomy in the Islamic cultural area. In 1892 the translation of the list of mathematicians in the Fihrist of Ibn Abi Ja Qub An-Nadim appeared in Cantor 's "Treatises on the History of Mathematics" , and in 1893 the translation of the mathematics-related parts of the catalog of the Khedivial Library in Cairo . One of his most important works is the work on the astronomical tables of Al-Khwarizmi, commissioned by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences .

Heinrich Suter died on March 17th, 1922 in Dornach.

Works

Abbreviations: BM. - Bibliotheca Mathematica, ZM. - Journal for Mathematics and Physics, ZDMG - Journal of the German Oriental Society, SE - Meeting reports of the phys.-med. Sozietät Erlangen, OLZ - Orientalist Literature Newspaper. The numbers behind the letters relate to the volume number and page number.

Books

  • 1871. History of the Mathematical Sciences, Part 1: From the earliest times to the end of the 16th century. Dissertation, 2nd ed. 1873. Reprint 1973. Online at Hathi Trust , at archive.org
  • 1875. History of the Mathematical Sciences, Part II: From the beginning of the 17th to the end of the 18th century. Online at Hathi Trust , at archive.org
  • 1900. The mathematicians and astronomers of the Arabs and their works. Treatise on the history of mathematical sciences, issue 10. Reprint 1972 and 1986. ( Digitized Bibalex; Michigan )

Essays

  • 1884. The Tractatus de quadratura Circuli by Albertus de Saxonia . ZM. 29, 81.
  • 1886 About Diophantine equations . Z. f. Math. 17, 104.
  • 1887. The mathematicians at the universities of the Middle Ages. Wiss supplement. z. Program d. Cantonal school in Zurich.
  • 1889. The mathematical and natural philosophical disputations at the University of Leipzig, 1512 to 1526. BM. (2), 3, 17.
  • 1890. Bibliographical note on math.-hist. Studies in Switzerland. BM (2), 4, 97.
  • 1892. The mathematicians directory in the Fihrist of Ibn Abi Ja Qub An-Nadim. Treatise z. Business d. math. Sciences booklet. 6th
  • 1892. Some of Nasir Ed-Din's Euclid edition. BM. (2), 6, 3.
  • 1893. On the history of trigonometry . BM. (2), 7, 1.
  • 1893. Volume V of the catalog of the arab. Books of the vicekönigl. Library in Cairo. ZM. 38, 1. 41, 161.
  • 1893. To Rudolf von Hochheim, The Astronomy of Gagmini . ZDMG 47, 718.
  • 1894. On the question about Josephus Sapiens. BM (2), 8, 84.
  • 1895. The Arabs as mediators of the sciences in their transition from the Orient to the Occident. Annual of the association schw. High school teacher. 2nd edition 1897.
  • 1895. On the history of the Jacob's staff . BM (2), 9, 13.
  • 1895. 1896. Again the staff of Jacob. BM (2), 10, 13.
  • 1895. 1897. Some contributions to the Gesch. the arab. Mathematicians and astronomers. BM (2) 11, 83.
  • 1895. Comments on M. Steinschneider's treatise: Die arab. Translation from Greek. ZDMG 51, 426.
  • 1898. About two Arabic masses from the Berlin royal library. BM (2), 1 2, 73.
  • 1899. Notes on Arab mathematicians and astronomers. BM (2) 13.86, 118.
  • 1899. The quadrature of Ibn El-Haitam , Arabic and German. ZM 44, 33.
  • 1899. The Loculus Archimedius or the Syntemachion of Archimedes , Arabic and German. ZM 44, supplement booklet (Cantorfestschrift), 491.
  • 1899. On the question about the lifetime of the author of the Mulahhas fi'Ihei'a, Mahmud B. Muhammed B. 'Omar al Gagmini. ZDMG 53, 539.
  • 1901. The arithmetic book of Abu Zakarija El-Hassar, BM (3) 2, 12.
  • 1902. Supplements and corrections to Die Math. And Astr. Depending on e.g. G. dm W. issue 14.
  • 1902. About the alleged mutilation of Greek proper names by arab. Translator. BM (3) 3, 408.
  • 1902. About the geometry of the sons of Musa B. Shakir. BM (3) 3, 259.
  • 1902. About the authors appearing in Liber augmenti et diminutionis . BM (3) 3,350.
  • 1903. About some unsecured author names in the translations of Gerhard von Cremona . BM (3) 4, 19.
  • 1903. The author of the book Reasons of the tables of Khowarezmi BM (3) 4, 127.
  • 1903. Correction of an etymology by K. Vollers. ZDMG 57, 576, 783.
  • 1903. Corrections on Arab mathematicians and astronomers by M. Steinschneider, OLZ 6, columns 40-13.
  • 1904. On the history of mathematics among the Indians and Arabs. Relation to 3rd international mathematicians congress. on Heidelberg p. 556.
  • 1905. To the book De superficierum divisionibus by Muhammad Bagdadinus. BM (2) 6, 321.
  • 1905. On the meaning of the expression Regula Coeci, BM (3) 6, 112.
  • 1906/7. On the question of the mathematician Diachasimus quoted by Nairizi. BM (3) 7,396.
  • 1906/7. About the arithmetic book of Ali B. Ahmed Al-Nasawi . BM (3) 7, 113.
  • 1906/7. About the comment of Moo. B. Abdelbaqi on the 10th book of Euclides . BM (3) 7, 234.
  • 1907/8. Some geometric problems for Arabic mathematicians. BM (3) 8, 23.
  • 1908/9. The treatise of Abu Kamil Shoga B. Aslam on the pentagon and decagon. BM (3) 10, 15
  • 1908/9. On the trigonometry of the Arabs. BM (3) 10.156.
  • 1910/11. The book of finding the tendons in the circle of Abu 'L-Raihan Muhammed El-Biruni . BM (3) 11, 110.
  • 1910/11. The Book of Arithmetic Rarities by Abu Kamil El-Misri. BM (3), 11, 100.
  • 1911/12. The treatise on the measurement of the paraboloid by El-Hansan B. El-Hansa B. El Haitham. BM (3), 12, 289.
  • 1914. The astronomical tables of Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi etc. Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Scrifter, 7. Raekke. III, 1. (Isis IV, 502).
  • 1916/17. About the measurement of the parabola by Tabit B. Kurra, SE. 48/49, 65. (Isis IV, 400).
  • 1916/17. Thabit B. Kurra's and Abu Sahl El-Kuhi's treatises on the measurement of the paraboloids SE. 48/39, 186. (Isis IV 400).
  • 1918. About the measurement of the parable by Ibrahim Sinan B. Thabit. Quarterly d. Naturf. Ges. In Zurich 63, 214. (Isis IV, 580).
  • 1920/21. About Al Biruni and his writings (with E. Wiedemann) SE. 52/53, 55 (Isis IV, 401).
  • 1922. Contributions to the history of mathematics among the Greeks and Arabs, in Abh. Business d. Natural ud medicine, (Isis V, 564) namely:
  • 1922. Contributions to the relations of Kaiser Friedrich II , to contemporary scholars of the East and West, in particular to the Arab encyclopedist Kemal Ed-Din Ibn Junis. (Isis V, 501).
  • 1922. Pappus' Commentary on Book X of Euclides . (Isis V, 492).
  • 1922. On the projection of the constellations and the lands of Al Biruni (Isis V, 498).
  • 1922. The Book of Geometric Constructions by Abu'l Wafa . (Isis V, 497).

Many of his essays were republished in 2 volumes as

  • Suter: Contributions to the history of mathematics and astronomy in Islam , 2 volumes, 1986, Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences, Frankfurt

Heinrich Suter's writings at the ULB Halle

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  • Literature: Julius Ruska , Heinrich Suter (born 4.I.1848, died 17.III.1922). Isis, Vol. 5, 1923, pp. 409-417. With a portrait. on-line
  • Carl Schoy , obituary in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of April 8, 1922, also printed in the quarterly journal of the Natural Research Society in Zurich, Vol. 67, 1922, pp. 407–413
  • Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (Ed.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development . Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0 , ( Science networks 27), p. 533.
personal data
SURNAME Suter, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss science historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hedingen
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1922
Place of death Dornach