July Ossipowitsch Hurwitz

July Ossipowitsch Hurwitz ( Russian Юлий Осипович Гурвиц ; * 1882 in Moscow ; † February 22, 1953 ibid) was a Russian mathematician and university professor .

Life

Hurwitz attended the Petri School in St. Petersburg with graduation in 1901. This was followed by studies at the physics and mathematics faculty of Moscow University , which he graduated in 1907 with a 1st class diploma. He now worked as a math teacher at Moscow boys and girls schools.

After the October Revolution , Hurwitz became the middle school director in Moscow. In 1918 he became a member of the Presidium of the Government Department of the Workers' Union for Enlightenment. From 1922 he headed the school department in the Moscow Department of Popular Education. He taught mathematics at the Pädagogischer Profintern -Technikum, the former Elisabeth School, and later at workers 'faculties and at the workers' faculty at the NKVD . 1930–1934 he held the chair of mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering . At the same time he taught at the Stalin Workers Evening Institute (until 1937), at the Pedagogical Institute of Moscow Oblast (the former Profintern Technical Center) and from 1938 at the new Moscow Institute for Teacher Training. From 1935 until his death he was a math teacher at Moscow School No. 175 (the former Kreiman Gymnasium).

In 1943 Hurwitz was honored as an Honored School Teacher of the RSFSR and in 1944 as the best of the people's enlightenment of the RSFSR. He received the Order of the Red Labor Banner in 1944 and the Ushinsky Medal in 1946 . In 1945 he became a member of the CPSU . In 1947 Hurwitz became a lecturer and dean of the physical-mathematical faculty of the Moscow Teachers' Institute and in 1952 a lecturer at the Chair of Mathematics at the Moscow Lenin Institute for Education .

Since 1918 Hurwitz published specialist articles for mathematics teachers, with methodology being one of the main focuses. Together with Rudolf Gangnus , Hurwitz wrote the well-known textbook on geometry in two parts (1932 and 1934) and in 1935 an introductory textbook on geometry. These textbooks were translated into the languages ​​important in the USSR ( Yiddish , Polish , German , Udmurt and others). In 1936 the textbooks received criticism from Gregor Michailowitsch Fichtenholz , Lew Genrichowitsch Schnirelman , Sergei Alexejewitsch Christianowitsch , Lasar Aronowitsch Ljusternik and Felix Ruwimowitsch Gantmacher , which was rejected by a resolution of the Moscow Mathematical Society .

Hurwitz was the grandfather of the mathematician Vladimir Mikhailovich Tichomirow .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Pandia: ЮЛИЙ ОСИПОВИЧ ГУРВИЦ (accessed March 23, 2018).
2. ↑ МОСКОВСКАЯ ПОКРОВСКАЯ ОБЩИНА СЕСТЕР МИЛОСЕРДИЯ (accessed March 22, 2018).
3. ↑ Ревекка Фрумкина: О нас - наискосок ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 23, 2018). 
4. ↑ Дела о присвоении звания заслуженного учителя школы РСФСР (accessed March 23, 2018).
5. ↑ Разделитель Гурвиц Юлий Осипович 1882–1953 Математик, карточка 1 из 54 (accessed March 23, 2018).
6. ↑ JO Gurwiz, RW Gangnus: Systematic course of geometry textbook fd middle schools . Staatsverlag f. Textbooks and Pedagogy, Moscow 1933.
7. ↑ JO Gurwiz, RW Gangnus: beginnings of geometry for the 5th grade of middle school . 3. Edition. State Publishing House of National Minorities, Kiev, Charkow 1935.
8. ↑ Tikhomirov Vladimir Mikhailovich, St. Petersburg, Apartments of the Euler Institute, June 2 1993, Highlights (interview) (accessed March 23, 2018).