Karel Petr

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Karel Petr

Karel Petr (born June 14, 1868 in Zbyslav , Austria-Hungary , † February 14, 1950 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a Czech mathematician. In 1925/26 he was rector of the Charles University in Prague .

Life

After attending high school in Čáslav and Chrudim , Karel Petr studied mathematics and physics for teaching at the Charles University in Prague. After graduating in 1893, he taught at secondary schools in Chrudim, Brno , Přerov and Olomouc . In 1902 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University in Brno . From 1903 he was associate professor at Charles University, where he was appointed full professor in 1908. In 1925/26 he held the post of university rector. In 1938 he retired.

Petr studied analytical number theory, the theory of algebraic forms, numerical mathematics, and geometry. He also wrote textbooks on analysis and published 108 scientific papers, including about 22 on number theory. After him, Bernhard Neumann (1941) and Jesse Douglas (1940), a theorem on polygons is named, which he published in 1908 and which can be understood as a generalization of Napoleon's theorem .

Petr was a member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and an honorary member of the Association of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists. In 1938, the Charles University and the Brno awarded him Masaryk University , the honorary doctorate .

Eduard Čech is one of his doctoral students .

Works (selection)

  • Počet integrální , Nakl. Jednoty čes. matemat. a fysiků, Prague 1915
  • Počet differenciální: Část analytická . Nakl. Jednoty čes. matemat. a fysiků, Prague 1923

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A sentence about polygons, Arch. Math. Physik 13, 1908, pp. 29–31
personal data
SURNAME Petr, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Zbyslav
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1950
Place of death Prague