Paul Schafheitlin

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Paul Schafheitlin (born on May 29, 1861 in Berlin ; died on October 2, 1924 there ) was a German mathematician .

Life

Schafheitlin studied from 1880 to 1884 in Freiburg and Berlin. In 1886 he was at the University of Halle for Dr. phil. PhD. He passed his teaching examination in 1884 in the subjects of mathematics, physics, botany and zoology. This was followed by a year of probation and work as an assistant teacher at various grammar schools and secondary schools. In 1889 he became a full teacher and in 1892 a senior teacher, teacher and professor at the Sophien-Realgymnasium in Berlin. From 1905 to 1908 he was chairman of the Berlin Mathematical Society . After his habilitation in 1920 he was a private lecturer in geometry at the Technical University of Berlin .

In the course of his research on the history of differential calculus, Schafheitlin discovered the Latin manuscript of Johann I Bernoulli's Lectiones de calculo differentialum (1691/92) in the manuscript collection of the University Library of Basel . He translated it into German in 1924 and published it with commentary, and was thus able to prove that the Marquis de L'Hospital's first textbook on differential calculus was not developed by the Marquis de L'Hospital himself, but was based on Bernoulli's manuscript.

His son was the actor Franz Schafheitlin .

Fonts

  • About a certain class of linear differential equations. Phil.Diss. Halle 1886, Unger, Berlin 1885
  • About the products of the solutions of homogeneous linear differential equations. Sophien-Realgymnasium Berlin, school program 1894/95; Gaertner, Berlin 1895
  • Some sentences of the elementary theory of space. Sophien-Realgymnasium Berlin, school program 1900/01; Gaertner, Berlin 1901
  • Synthetic geometry of the conics for the prima of higher educational institutions. Teubner, Leipzig [a. a.] 1907
  • The theory of Bessel functions. Teubner, Leipzig [a. a.] 1908
  • Edited the conics for school. Sophien-Realgymnasium Berlin, school program 1911/12; Weidmann, Berlin 1912
  • Johann I Bernoulli : The differential calculation by Johann Bernoulli from the year 1691/92: based on the manuscript in the Basel university library. Translated, with a preface and notes by Paul Schafheitlin; Ostwald's Classics of the Exact Sciences 211; Akad. Verl.-Ges., Leipzig 1924 ( foreword online ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Meeting reports of the Berlin Mathematical Society 2001, p. 328; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ Winfried Scharlau : Mathematical Institutes in Germany 1800–1945. German Mathematicians Association. Among employees numerous Specialist. Vieweg, Braunschweig, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 978-3-528-08992-4 , p. 23
  3. ↑ István Szabó : History of mechanical principles and their most important applications , 3rd expanded edition edited by Peter Zimmermann, Emil Fellmann ; Birkhäuser, Basel, 1977, 1979, ISBN 3-7643-1735-3 , p. 170; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Herbert Meschkowski : Thoughts of great mathematicians: A way to the history of mathematics. Strong adult and revised Ed., Vieweg, Braunschweig 1990, ISBN 978-3-322-85074-4 , p. 92 ff .; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Schafheitlin, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1924
Place of death Berlin