Ivan Nikolajewitsch Wesselowski
Ivan Nikolaevich Wesselowski , Russian Иван Николаевич Веселовский (* 26. November 1892 in Moscow , † 24 June 1977 ) was a Russian engineer and science historian .
Wesselowski excelled as a student at the Classical Gymnasium in Moscow and studied mathematics and physics at Lomonossow University . He was a student of Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky and wrote his thesis on aerodynamics. After graduating, he worked under Schukowski as an engineer at ZAGI . In the early 1920s he worked for the Electrification Commission and the State Planning Bureau. From 1921 he taught mechanics at the Moscow Technical University, where he was appointed professor in 1951.
He also dealt with the history of mathematics, astronomy and mechanics. As a mathematician, he dealt with mathematics in ancient Greece and Babylonia. He edited Russian translations of Archimedes (1962), Diophantos of Alexandria (1974) and Claudius Ptolemy (Almagest), Euclid , Aristarchus of Samos , Heron of Alexandria , Jordanus Nemorarius and Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis (game of billiards).
literature
- Veselovskii, Ivan Nikolaevich, in: Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 553
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wesselowski, Iwan Nikolajewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Веселовский, Иван Николаевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian engineer and science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1977 |
| Place of death | Moscow |