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Immanuel Lazarus Fuchs (born May 5, 1833 in Moschin , Province of Posen , † April 26, 1902 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician .
Life
Fuchs studied mathematics at the University of Berlin from the summer semester of 1854 , a. a. with Ernst Eduard Kummer and Karl Weierstrass , and received his doctorate on August 2, 1858 with Weierstrass. On March 19, 1859 he passed the examination for the higher teaching post. From 1860 he worked as an assistant teacher and from March 26, 1864 to May 23, 1867 as a teacher in Berlin. a. at the Friedrichs-Werderschen trade school.
In August 1865 he completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin and was appointed associate professor on December 7, 1866. From May 23, 1867 he was also a teacher at the artillery and engineering school in Berlin .
On February 3, 1869, Fuchs became a full professor at the University of Greifswald . From March 22, 1869 he was also a lecturer at the Agricultural Academy Eldena .
On January 23, 1874, he became a full professor at the University of Göttingen .
On January 8, 1875, he succeeded Leo Koenigsberger as a full professor at the University of Heidelberg and co-director of the Mathematical-Physical Seminar.
In the summer semester of 1884 he returned to the University of Berlin as the successor to Ernst Kummer as a full professor, where he led the mathematics seminar together with Leopold Kronecker until 1891 . In 1899 he was rector of the Berlin University.
Fuchs died in Berlin on April 26, 1902. He was buried in Schöneberg in the St. Matthew Cemetery . The former honorary grave of the city of Berlin is located in field H.
His son Richard Fuchs was also a mathematician.
Act
Fuchs dealt with the areas of function theory , differential geometry and calculus of variations . He dealt mainly with algebraic and function-theoretical problems as well as especially the theory of homogeneous linear differential equations of the nth order in complexes with analytical coefficient functions ( Fuchs' differential equations ).
See also
Memberships / honors
- 1874 member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- 1883 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen
- 1883 member of the Leopoldina
- 1884 member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- 1892 member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
- 1895 Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg
- 1895 Corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences
- 1898 member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1898 member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The asteroid (22497) Immanuelfuchs was named after him.
Fonts (selection)
- De superficierum lineis curvaturae. Dissertation, University of Berlin, 1858 ( online ).
- On the theory of linear differential equations with variable coefficients (= annual report on the municipal trade school. 1864/65, supplement). Lange, Berlin 1865.
- About functions of two variables, which arise by reversing the integrals of two given functions. Dieterich, Göttingen 1881.
- On the theory of linear differential equations In: Session reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. 1888 (II), pp. 1115-1126 and 1273-1290 ( online ); 1889 (II), pp. 713-726 ( online ); 1890 (I), pp. 21-38 ( online ).
- Collected mathematical works. Edited by Richard Fuchs and Ludwig Schlesinger . 3 volumes. Berlin 1904-1909 ( online ).
literature
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Jeremy Gray : Fuchs and the theory of differential equations. In: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . Vol. 10, 1984, pp. 1-26 ( online ).
- Meyer Hamburger [a. a.]: The mathematician Lazarus Fuchs. A biographical anthology. From obituaries and biographical articles by Meyer Hamburger, Carl von Voit, Georg Wallenberg a. a. compiled by Gabriele Dörflinger. Digital edition 2012. 51 pp.
- Nikolai Stuloff: Fox, Lazarus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 675 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Lazarus Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gabriele Dörflinger: Fuchs, Lazarus (5.5.1833 - 16.4.1902) (PDF, 2 MB, created 2016) in the Homo Heidelbergensis mathematicus collection of the Heidelberg University Library
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fox, Lazarus |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fuchs, Immanuel Lazarus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1833 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Moschin , Poznan Province |
DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1902 |
Place of death | Berlin |