Max Simon (mathematician)

From a photo album of the Mathematical Society Hamburg

Maximilian Simon (born June 8, 1844 in Kolberg , † January 15, 1918 in Strasbourg ) was a German math historian and teacher. As a mathematician, he was mainly concerned with ancient mathematics.

He was born in Kolberg , where his father, the doctor Aron Simon, had been active since 1818; In 1848 the family moved to Berlin , where he studied from 1862 to 1866 and received his doctorate in 1867 under Karl Weierstraß and Ernst Eduard Kummer . He was a mathematics teacher in Berlin from 1868 to 1871 and in Strasbourg from 1871 to 1912, where he received an honorary professorship at the university in 1903 .

Fonts

Cusanus as a mathematician . In: Festschrift Heinrich Weber on his seventieth birthday ... Leipzig [u. a.], 1912. pp. 298-337. Digitized Univ. Heidelberg
Euclid and the six planimetric books , Teubner 1901
About the development of elementary geometry in the XIX. Century , Annual Report of the German Mathematicians Association, Volume 15, Teubner, 1906
History of mathematics in antiquity in connection with ancient cultural history , Berlin: B. Cassirer 1909
Elementary treatment of non-Euclidean geometry (editor Kuno Fladt ), Teubner 1925
Analytical geometry of the plane , 3rd edition, Göschen Collection 1900
Analytical geometry of space , 2 volumes, Göschen Collection 1900, 1901

literature

Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (Ed.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development . Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0 , ( Science networks 27), p. 522.

Individual evidence

↑ The filiation comes from Act No. 1672, p. 169 f., In the inventory "Akta Miasta Kołobrzegu" (files of the city of Kolobrzeg) in the Stettin State Archives (Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie).
^ After Jacob Jacobson (edit.): The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851. With additions for the years 1791–1809. Berlin 1964 (= publications of the Berlin Historical Commission at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute for Free University Berlin. 4.1.), No. 2806.
^ Reinhard Bölling, Karl Weierstrass: The photo album for Weierstrass . Vieweg + Teubner, 1994, ISBN 978-3-528-06602-4 , p. 49
^ Maximilian Simon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

personal data
SURNAME	Simon, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Simon, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German math historian and math teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1918
Place of death	Strasbourg

[1] The filiation comes from Act No. 1672, p. 169 f., In the inventory "Akta Miasta Kołobrzegu" (files of the city of Kolobrzeg) in the Stettin State Archives (Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie).

[2] After Jacob Jacobson (edit.): The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851. With additions for the years 1791–1809. Berlin 1964 (= publications of the Berlin Historical Commission at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute for Free University Berlin. 4.1.), No. 2806.

[3] Reinhard Bölling, Karl Weierstrass: The photo album for Weierstrass . Vieweg + Teubner, 1994, ISBN 978-3-528-06602-4 , p. 49

[4] Maximilian Simon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project