Ludwig August Seeber

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Ludwig August Seeber (born November 14, 1793 in Karlsruhe , † December 9, 1855 there ) was a German mathematician and physicist.

Life

Ludwig August Seeber was born in Karlsruhe in 1793. Between 1819 and 1822 he was a teacher at the military school in Karlsruhe. He then became a professor of physics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1834 he was a professor at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe . He was not particularly successful and retired early in 1840 due to disciplinary problems. He died in 1855.

Scientific results

The reduction of crystal lattices has been an active research area in crystallography until very recently. Seeber introduced the first process for this in 1831, the so-called reduced form. This work was largely overlooked and re-derived in 1928 by Paul Niggli . He found 44 reduced forms. Niggli's work was also overlooked at first. In 1933 Boris Nikolajewitsch Delone introduced lattice reduction into crystallography.

reception

George Szpiro describes Seeber as an unknown professor of physics and mathematics. His book, Investigations into the Properties of Positive Ternary Square Shapes, is lengthy and extremely tiresome. However, the book was reviewed by Carl Friedrich Gauß . Seeber needed over 600 calculations on 248 pages to arrive at his guess. In his review, Gauss only needed forty lines to provide the mathematical proof. According to Szpiro, the review had a greater impact on mathematics than Seeber's original work.

See also

Works

  • LA Seeber: Attempt to explain the internal structure of solid bodies. Gilbert's Ann. der Physik 76 (1824) 229-248.
  • LA Seeber: Investigations into the properties of positive ternary quadratic forms. Freiburg (1831). Digitized
  • LA Seeber: Completion of the Euclidean system of geometry: in consideration of its insufficient proofs of the theorems concerning the parallel lines and their properties. Karlsruhe (1840). Digitized

literature

  • Peter Engel: Geometric Crystallography . 1st edition. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht 1986, ISBN 90-277-2339-7 , pp. 66-67 .
  • J. Lüroth: Baden biographies . In: Friedrich von Weech (Ed.): Badische Biographien . tape 2 , 1875, Ludwig August Seeber, p. 295 ( [1] ).

Web links

Wikisource: Ludwig August Seeber  - (German)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ LC Andrews, HJ Bernstein, NK Sauter: Selling reduction versus Niggli reduction for crystallographic lattices . In: Acta Crystallographica Section A . tape 75 , no. 1 , 2019, p. 115-120 , doi : 10.1107 / S2053273318015413 .
  2. ^ Johann Jakob Burckhardt : The symmetry of the crystals . 1st edition. Birkhäuser, Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7643-1918-6 , p. 119-120 .
  3. ↑ George G. Szpiro: The Kepler Conjecture: How mathematicians solved a 400 year old puzzle . 1st edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-12740-3 , pp. 105-118 .
  4. ↑ CF Gauss: Review of the "Investigations on the Properties of the Positive Ternary Square Shapes by Ludwig August Seeber, Dr. of philosophy, ordinary Professor at the University of Freiburg. 1831. 248 p. In 4. “ In: Journal for pure and applied mathematics . tape 1840 , no. 20 , 1840, p. 312-320 , doi : 10.1515 / crll.1840.20.312 .
personal data
SURNAME Seeber, Ludwig August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1855
Place of death Karlsruhe