Ludwig Oettinger
Ludwig Oettinger or Öttinger (born May 7, 1797 in Edelfingen , † October 10, 1869 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German mathematician .
Life
After attending school in Karlsruhe, Oettinger studied theology , philology and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg . Here he joined the Corps Suevia , which reciprocated him in 1815 . After the theological exam (1817) he worked for a short time as a pastor in Mundingen . The following year he was employed as a teacher at the Lörrach Pedagogy. As early as 1820 he was appointed director of the education department in Durlach. In 1822 he went to the Heidelberg grammar school as a high school professor and in 1831 was appointed private lecturer at the university there. In 1836 he accepted the call to a full professorship for mathematics at the University of Freiburg , where he taught and researched until his death.
Oettinger's research is particularly in the field of combinatorics , on which he wrote numerous papers . He transferred the methods of combinatorics to analysis . In addition, Oettinger dealt with the history of mathematics and wrote many articles for August Friedrich Paulys Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Antiquities (1837-1852).
Fonts
- Research in the field of higher analysis: with the results and their application , Heidelberg, 1831
- Textbook of arithmetic and algebra , Freiburg, 1837
- Theory of lottery loans together with a method of determining the value of a capital at different rates of interest and the rate resulting from this with regard to the Grand Ducal Bad. Government bonds , Freiburg, 1844
- Using a method to develop the higher differentials of the functions of functions , Freiburg, 1846
- The ideas of the ancient Greeks and Romans about the earth as a heavenly body , Freiburg, 1850
- The calculation of probability , Berlin, 1852
- Theory of the analytical faculties together with their application to analysis, circular functions and certain integrals , Freiburg, 1854
- Further execution of political arithmetic , Greifswald, 1863
literature
- Moritz Cantor : Oettinger, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 568.
- Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 98
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Oettinger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 67 , 96
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Oettinger, Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1797 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Edelfingen |
DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1869 |
Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |