Leo August Pochhammer

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Leo August Pochhammer (born August 25, 1841 in Stendal , † March 24, 1920 in Kiel ) was a German mathematician and namesake for the Pochhammer symbol .

Life

Pochhammer grew up in Berlin and studied mathematics and physics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin from 1859 to 1863 . He received his PhD in 1863 at Ernst Kummer to Dr. phil. The habilitation followed in 1872 . For the next two years he was a private lecturer in Berlin. In 1874 he became associate professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . After the mathematics seminar had been founded at the same university in 1877, a second chair for mathematics was set up with the appointment of Pochhammer as full professor . On May 22, 1877, regulations for the mathematical seminar at the Royal University in Kiel were issued. In addition to Georg Daniel Eduard Weyer , Pochhammer was appointed one of the directors of the seminar. In the years 1893/94 he was rector of the university. In his rector's speech on March 6, 1893, he made a “contribution to the question of university studies for women”. In 1895 he became a go. Councilor appointed. From 1876 to 1914 he taught part-time at the Naval Academy and School (Kiel) . He died only a few months after his retirement in 1919. Otto Toeplitz was the successor to the second chair .

Act

Pochhammer's more than forty years of work in Kiel is characterized by the impressive abundance and diversity of his teaching activities as well as by his extensive scientific work. He has been described as an "extremely diligent and conscientious docent". In his lectures , which were supplemented by regular exercises and seminars in accordance with the regulations, he dealt with almost all areas of mathematics at the time and was thus responsible, among others, for a considerable expansion of teaching. His numerous writings are mainly devoted to the theory of ordinary and partial differential equations , often related to physical problems. Above all, his investigations into the hypergeometric differential equation and its generalizations are still linked to his name ( Pochhammer symbol ). In a number of other works he dealt with the elasticity of a rod, the propagation of vibrations in circular cylinders and differential equations for elastic isotropic media.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: De superficiei undarum derivatione ; on-line
  2. ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Pochhammer, Leo August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1920
Place of death Kiel