Karl Bopp (mathematician)

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Karl Bopp (born March 28, 1877 in Rastatt , † December 5, 1934 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian of mathematics .

Bopp was the son of a doctor and went to school in Rastatt. From 1895 he studied in Strasbourg and Heidelberg with Moritz Cantor, among others . In 1902 he did his doctorate with Cantor (and Leo Koenigsberger ), the dissertation being about Antoine Arnauld . He completed his habilitation in 1906 with a thesis on the conic sections of Gregorius a Sancto Vincentio and became an associate professor in Heidelberg in 1915, but was only able to take up the professorship in 1919 because of his military service in the First World War. As Cantor's successor, he taught the history of mathematics , political arithmetic , and insurance there . Since 1933 he was bedridden due to an illness, where he died in 1934.

Bopp's specialty was research on Johann Heinrich Lambert . He edited Lambert's monthly book, his correspondence with Leonhard Euler and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , and his philosophical writings. Bopp wrote papers on the history of elliptical functions and published a paper by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier on gravitation . He had 15 PhD students.

He was secretary of the Department of Mathematical History at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Heidelberg in 1904 and in 1929 organized the 100th anniversary of the birthday of his teacher Moritz Cantor, whom he admired, in Heidelberg.

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  • Antoine Arnauld, the great Arnauld, as a mathematician. In: Dependent on the history of math. Knowledge Volume 14 (1902) pp. 187-336. (Dissertation)
  • The conic sections of Gregorius a St. Vincentio in comparative processing . Teubner, Leipzig 1906. (Habil script)
  • A letter from Regiomontanus to Cardinal Bessarion. In: Archives for the history of natural sciences and technology. Volume 1 (1909), pp. 395-401. ( Digitized version of Heidelberg University )
  • Johann Heinrich Lambert's monthly book with the accompanying comments . Munich, 1916.
  • Moritz Cantor. Commemorative speech given at the Mathematisches Verein zu Heidelberg on June 19, 1920 . Heidelberg, 1920. ( New digital edition Univ. Heidelberg, 2011)
  • Leo Koenigsberger as a historian of the mathematical sciences. In: German Mathematicians Association. Volume 33 (1924), pp. 104-112. ( New digital edition Univ. Heidelberg, 2005)

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  • Wilhelm Lorey : Karl Bopp . In: Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association . tape 45 , 1935, pp. 116-119 ( digitized version ).
  • Günter Kern: The development of mathematics at the University of Heidelberg 1835-1914 . 1992. pp. 109-112 et al. 157-158. ( digitally pp. 45–46 and 134)
  • Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 373

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