Paul Bachmann (mathematician)
Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (born June 22, 1837 in Berlin , † March 31, 1920 in Weimar ) was a German mathematician who is best known for his textbooks on number theory .
Life
Bachmann was the son of a Protestant pastor and showed musical inclinations in his youth. He studied mathematics at the University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1862 with a dissertation in the field of group theory under Ernst Eduard Kummer . In between he had studied from 1856 in Göttingen with Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet , who had recently moved there from Berlin, and there he made friends with Richard Dedekind . During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity in 1857 . After completing his dissertation, he went to the University of Breslau , where he completed his habilitation in 1864 with a number theory thesis on complex units and in 1867 became an associate professor. In 1875 he accepted a professorship at the Royal Theological and Philosophical Academy in Münster . In 1890 he gave up his chair after the divorce from his wife and moved with his second wife to Weimar to devote himself entirely to music (as a piano player and critic) and to writing his famous books on number theory, which came in five volumes from 1892 to 1923 (and 1872) published. Bachmann also wrote the biographical section on Carl Friedrich Gauß as a number theorist in his collected works.
A grandson of Paul Bachmann, Friedrich Bachmann , worked from 1949 as a mathematics professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .
Works
- Elements of number theory. 1892.
- Arithmetic of the quadratic forms. 1898.
- The doctrine of circle healing and its relationship to number theory. 1872 ( archive.org ).
- General arithmetic of number fields. 1923.
- The analytic number theory. 1894 (in this work the notation later called O notation was used for the first time ).
- Lower number theory. 2 volumes. 1902, 1910.
- The Fermat problem in its development so far. 1919.
literature
- Kurt Hensel: Paul Bachmann and his life's work . In: German Mathematicians Association (ed.): Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association . tape 36 . Teubner, 1927, ISSN 0012-0456 , p. 31–73 ( uni-goettingen.de - contains a complete list of publications on pp. 72–73).
- Bruno Sauer: Bachmann, Paul Gustav Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 497 ( digitized version ).
- Jürgen Elstrodt and Norbert Schmitz: History of Mathematics at the University of Münster Part I: 1173-1945. Münster 2008 ( math.uni-muenster.de ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Bachmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Paul Bachmann in the German Digital Library
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Paul Bachmann. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Digitized writings of Bachmann
- Bachmann Low Number Theory , Encyclical Mathematical Science 1900
- Bachmann Analytical Number Theory , Encyclical Mathematics. Knowledge
- His elements of number theory (1892), arithmetic of quadratic forms (1925) and analytical number theory (1894) ( quod.lib.umich.edu )
- His five-volume work on number theory ( gallica.bnf.fr )
- Author profile in the database zbMATH
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bachmann, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bachmann, Paul Gustav Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1920 |
| Place of death | Weimar |