Oskar Schlömilch

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Oskar Schlömilch

Oscar Xavier Schlömilch (born April 13, 1823 in Weimar ; † February 7, 1901 in Dresden ) was a German mathematician .

Life

Schlömilch studied mathematics and physics in Jena , Berlin and Vienna . In Berlin he was a student of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet . He first taught in Jena, where he received his doctorate in 1844 (dissertation Theorema taylorianum ), and from 1849 in Dresden (Technical University) as a professor of mathematics. In 1874 he gave up his chair and became Minister of Education in Saxony.

Among other things, he developed the so-called Schlömilch residual limb representation of the Taylor development and wrote an important textbook on analysis . There are a number of textbooks and handbooks by him in which he made the methods of analysis of Augustin-Louis Cauchy known in Germany early on . Some of his textbooks were very popular and successful in his day. Certain series developments according to Bessel functions are referred to as Schlömilch series (Schlömilch series). The journal for mathematics and physics (co-founded by him) is also referred to in older sources as Schlömilchsche Zeitschrift . Without knowledge of previous work by Leonhard Euler and Carl Johan Malmstén , he published a proof of the functional equation of the zeta function in 1858.

Schlömilch initially published a lot in the archive for mathematics and physics of Johann August Grunert . At first the relationship with Grunert was good, but when he allowed an amateur mathematician (FW Barfuss, an insurance director from Weimar) to continue a dispute with Schlömilch over a question of bills with divergent series, Schlömilch had doubts about Grunert's competence (and his preference for stale mathematical ones Content). He decided to found his own magazine, for which he contacted the Teubner publishing house in Leipzig in 1854. He explained to the publisher that the journal for pure and applied mathematics by August Leopold Crelle was too high for most math teachers and that the annals of physics and chemistry by Johann Christian Poggendorff and both (and Grunert's archive) also needed competition. In 1856 the first volume of the journal for mathematics and physics appeared. Until 1859 he was assisted in the publication by Benjamin Witzschel, who from 1859 was replaced by Moritz Cantor , supplemented from 1860 by E. Kahl. Under Cantor's influence, many contributions to the history of mathematics appeared, from 1875 in special supplements. In 1896 Schlömilch gave up the publication.

Schlömilch died in Dresden in 1901. He was buried in the old Anne cemetery. Instead of his grave, which was destroyed, the memorial for professors of the TU Dresden on the cemetery u. a. of Schlömilch.

Honors

Since 1852 he was a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences . In 1863 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1862 he was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

Memorial for Oskar Schlömilch on the Old Annenfriedhof in Dresden

See also

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlömilch, Journal of Mathematics and Physics, Volume 3, 1858, pp. 130-132
  2. ^ Members of the SAW: Oskar Schlömilch. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Member entry of Oskar Xaver Schlömilch at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schlömilch, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlömilch, Oscar Xavier (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1901
Place of death Dresden