Max Zacharias

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Heinrich Wilhelm Max Zacharias (born May 5, 1873 in Berlin ; † May 2, 1962 ) was a German mathematician.

Zacharias studied in Berlin from 1894 to 1897, passed the teaching examination in 1898, was a grammar school teacher in Berlin from 1901 and did his doctorate in Rostock in 1903 ( on the relationship between the 27 straight lines on a 3rd order surface and the 28 double tangents of a flat 4th order curve ) with Otto Staude .

He wrote the article elementary geometry in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences and (partly with Max Ebner) in the 1920s and 1930s several school textbooks on geometry, arithmetic, trigonometry and algebra. He also wrote an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and an introduction to projective geometry . He edited the Brouillon Projet by Gérard Desargues in Ostwald's Classics of Exact Sciences in German translation and published on Desargues.

He later had the title of professor.

Fonts

  • The parallel problem and its solution: an introduction to hyperbolic non-Euclidean geometry , Teubner 1937, 2nd edition 1951
  • Introduction to projective geometry , Teubner 1912, 4th edition 1951, online here [1] (projective geometry is presented on the basis of the contributions by Desargues, Blaise Pascal , Jean-Victor Poncelet , Jakob Steiner , Karl Georg Christian von Staudt , each of which a chapter is dedicated)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meeting reports of the Berlin Mathematical Society. In the annual report of the German Mathematicians Association 1965, May 22nd is given as the date of death
  2. ↑ In 1912 he was a senior teacher at the Humboldt Gymnasium in Berlin according to the information in his book on projective geometry.
  3. ^ Desargues first draft of an experiment on the results of the meeting of a cone with a plane , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Ostwalds Klassiker, 1922
  4. ^ Max Zacharias Desargues Significance for Projective Geometry , Deutsche Mathematik, Volume 5, 1940, pp. 446–457
  5. ↑ The obituary in the DMV annual report mentions Prof. Quedlinburg
personal data
SURNAME Zacharias, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zacharias, Heinrich Wilhelm Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1962