Hermann Schubert (mathematician)
Hermann Caesar Hannibal Schubert (born May 22, 1848 in Potsdam , † July 20, 1911 in Hamburg ) was a German mathematician and the founder of the calculus of counting geometry in algebraic geometry .
Life
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Hermann Schubert studied mathematics in Berlin and Halle from 1867 to 1870 , where he received his doctorate in 1870. From 1871 to 1876 he was a high school teacher at the Andreanum in Hildesheim , where he had, among others, Julius Hurwitz and his younger brother Adolf Hurwitz , whom he recommended to Felix Klein . From 1876 until his retirement in 1908 he was a grammar school professor at the Johanneum in Hamburg. In 1884 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Building on the methods of Michel Chasles , he established a calculus of counting methods in (algebraic) geometry (the title of his book published by Teubner in Leipzig in 1879), also known as the Schubert calculus . The Chasles student Hieronymus Zeuthen also worked in this area at the same time . The strict justification of his methods was one of Hilbert's problems at the Congress of Mathematicians in 1900. Schubert also wrote a book on entertainment mathematics and two books on the Salta board game .
Hermann Schubert was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square AE 24 (west of chapel 6).
Fonts
- Calculus of counting geometry , Leipzig 1879 ( online at archive.org )
- The squaring of the circle in both called and unskilled minds , Hamburg 1889
- Mathematical leisure hours , 1897, de Gruyter 1941, 1953 (last edited by F. Fitting); 2nd edition in 3 volumes, 1900, online at archive.org: Volume 1 , Volume 2 and Volume 3
- Salta, the new board game . Grethlein & Co., Leipzig 1899 (1st edition, online at archive.org ) / 1908 (2nd edition).
- Salta and Salta-Solo (Miniature Library No. 382) . Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Leipzig 1902, online at archive.org
literature
- Werner Burau in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, as well as communications from the Mathematische Gesellschaft Hamburg vol. 3, 1966, p. 10, vol. 13, 1993, p. 63 (with Renschuch)
- Steven Kleiman : Problem 15. Rigorous foundation of Schubert's enumerative calculus , in F Brorowder Hilberts problems , Proceedings of the Symposium in Pure Mathematics of the American Mathematical Society, Held at Northern Illinois University 1974, pp. 445-482.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Hermann Schubert (mathematician). In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Schubert among the founding members of the DMV ( Memento from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Schubert Elementary Arithmetic and Algebra, PDF
- English translation of his mathematical leisure hours and his calculus of counting geometry are online here: [1]
- Schubert basics of arithmetic , encyclopedia of mathem. Sciences 1898
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Hermann Schubert at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
- ↑ Celebrity Graves
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schubert, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schubert, Hermann Caesar Hannibal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1911 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |