Hendrik de Vries (mathematician)
Hendrik de Vries , sometimes Hendrick, (born August 25, 1867 in Amsterdam , † March 3, 1954 in Binjamina , Israel ) was a Dutch mathematician.
biography
De Vries was the son of a teacher and grew up in Rotterdam . When he was seventeen, the family moved to Frauenfeld , Switzerland , where he graduated from high school. From 1886 he studied at the ETH Zurich , graduating in 1890. After that, he was Otto Wilhelm Fiedler's assistant in Zurich for four years , during which time he dealt with representational and projective geometry . In 1894 he went back to the Netherlands as a teacher at the Higher Civic School in Amsterdam. In 1901 he received his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam under Diederik Johannes Korteweg , where he was a private lecturer. In 1902 he became a math teacher onPolytechnic in Delft . In 1906 he became a professor at the University of Amsterdam. In 1937 he retired and moved to Palestine.
He dealt with geometry (specifically projective geometry) and later with the history of mathematics , especially geometry.
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1926) is one of his doctoral students .
He was married and had two children.
He is not to be confused with another Dutch mathematician Hendrik de Vries (* 1932), who was a professor at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, nor with the poet Hendrik de Vries (1896-1989).
Fonts
- De vierde dimensie, eene inleiding tot de vergelijkende study of the schillende meet customers. Noordhoff, Groningen 1915, German translation: The fourth dimension , Teubner, Leipzig 1926
- Buttoned differential integraalrekening. Noordhoff, Groningen 1929
- Historical studies. 3 volumes, 1926
literature
- Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 408
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden : Levensbericht van Hendrik de Vries, Jaarboek Kgl. Ned. Akad. Wiss. for 1953/54, 1954, pp. 275-277
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Hendrik de Vries (mathematician). In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hendrik de Vries in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Among other things, he published a book on Lie groups with Hans Freudenthal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vries, Hendrik de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vries, Hendrick de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1954 |
| Place of death | Binjamina , Israel |