Johannes Tropfke
Johannes Tropfke (born October 14, 1866 in Berlin ; † November 10, 1939 there ) was a German mathematician and teacher. From 1907 he was a city councilor in his home town for many years.
Life
In 1912 he was appointed founding director of the Kirschner secondary school , which he ran until 1932. From 1921 he wrote a seven-volume history of elementary mathematics , which replaced the older work by Moritz Cantor as the standard work. Even after Tropfke's death, new editions were made from the 1980s onwards.
In 1930 he received the Ackermann-Teubner Memorial Prize for the second edition of his history books . In 1938 he was accepted into the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences . In recognition of his services to mathematics, the Prussian Academy of Sciences awarded him the silver Leibniz Medal in 1939 .
Works
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- History of elementary mathematics in systematic representation , 7 volumes, Berlin 1921-24, 3rd edition in four volumes 1930 to 1940, new from 1980 (edited by Kurt Vogel , Helmuth Gericke , Karin Reich and others, online access subject to charge ), Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin (first in two volumes: Volume 1, 1902, online at archive.org ; Volume 2, 1903, online at archive.org )
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Tropfke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Status of editing of "Tropfke" in the 1980s
- Menso Folkerts : Johannes Tropfke (1866-1939) on the website of the Berlin Mathematical Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann , "Johannes Tropfke (14. X. 1866 to 10. XI. 1939)", in: " Deutsche Mathematik ", Vol.6, No. 1 (10 Sep. 1941), p. 114– 118
- ^ List of members of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tropfke, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1939 |
| Place of death | Berlin |