Jakob Philipp Kulik

Jakob Philipp Kulik (born April 20, 1793 in Lemberg , Galicia , † February 28, 1863 in Prague ) was an Austrian mathematician who is best known for his extensive factor tables.

Life

Jakob Philipp Kulik first studied philosophy, then law and finally mathematics. In 1814 he applied for the position of professor of elementary mathematics in Olomouc . In 1816 he became a professor of physics at the lyceum in Graz . In 1822 he received his doctorate. In 1826 he became a professor of mathematics at the University of Prague , where he lived until his death.

Kulik's math tables

In 1825, Kulik named a factor table for numbers up to 30 million, which, however, no longer seems to exist today. It is also unclear whether this panel was actually completed.

From about 1825 to 1863 Kulik made a factor table of numbers up to 100,330,200 (except for the numbers divisible by 2, 3 or 5). This panel was essentially the same finish as the up to 30 million panel, and it is therefore likely that work on this Magnus canon divisorum lasted from the mid-1820s until Kulik's death in 1863, when these panels were still unfinished. The manuscripts fill eight volumes with a total of 4212 pages and are - with the exception of the lost second volume - kept in the archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Works

• Jakob Philipp Kulik: Handbook of mathematical tables. Grätz: Christoph Penz, 1824.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: Divisores numerorum decies centena millia non excedentium. Accedunt tabulæ auxiliares ad calculandos numeri cujuscunque divisores destinatæ. Tables of the simple factors of all numbers under one million, together with auxiliary tables for determining the factors of each larger number. Graz 1825.
• Jakob Philipp Kulis: The millennial calendar. A useful handbook for historiographers, diplomats, archivists, judges, lawyers, country clergymen, and in general for those who have to determine the chronological dates occurring in the old manuscripts, history books and documents. Prague 1831. Prague ² 1834.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: Textbook of higher analysis. With 3 stone tablets. Prague 1831. Prague ² 1843.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: Theory and tables of the chain line . Prague 1832. (Treatises of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, New Volume 3, Vol. 5.)
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: Collection of tables to facilitate the study of mathematics, and with regard to their applicability to purposes of practical life . 1833.
• Jakob Philipp Kulis: Investigations into the chain bridge line. With 2 stone tablets. Prague 1838.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: The foundations of higher mechanics. With twenty-three stone tablets. Leipzig; Prague 1846.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: Tables of the square and cube numbers of all natural numbers up to one hundred thousand, together with their application to the decomposition of large numbers into their factors. Calculated using a new method. Leipzig 1848.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: New multiplication tables. An indispensable tool for everyone to calculate quickly, safely and without fatigue. (PDF; 33.9 MB) Leipzig 1851.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik (ed.): Tables of the hyperbolic sectors and the lengths of elliptical arcs and quadrants. Leipzig 1851.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: About the table of primitive roots. In: Journal for pure and applied mathematics 45 (1853), pp. 55–81.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: Contributions to solving higher equations in general and the cubic equations in particular. Prague 1860. (Treatises of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, Volume 5, Vol. 11.), pp. 21–123.
• Jakob Philipp Kulik: Magnus Canon Divisorum . Manuscript, around 1825–1863.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kulik, Jacob Philipp . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 356–359 ( digitized version ).
• Günther:  Kulik, Jakob Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 361.
• Kulik Jakob Philipp. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 341.

Web links

• Reconstruction of Kulik's tables on LOCOMAT , online library of mathematical tables.
• Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , BG 13: bequests and manuscripts.