Paul Stäckel

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Paul Stäckel

Paul Gustav Samuel Stäckel (born August 20, 1862 in Berlin , † December 12, 1919 in Heidelberg ) was a German mathematician . He conducted research in the field of function theory , differential geometry , number theory (for example Goldbach's hypothesis ) and the history of non-Euclidean geometry . He also made contributions in the field of mathematics teaching. In the field of prime numbers , he first used the term prime twins .

Life

Paul Stäckel was the son of the school councilor Ernst Gustav Stäckel († 1908) and his wife Marie Elisabeth Ringel. He was baptized Protestant. In 1886 he did voluntary military service in Berlin, from 1914 to 1916 he served as a soldier in the First World War . In 1891 he married Eleonore Elisabeth Lüdecke (* 1869, † after 1919). The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

After graduating from high school in 1880, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Berlin , but also attended lectures on philosophy, psychology, pedagogy and history. A year later he passed the examination for the higher teaching post. He initially earned his living teaching at grammar schools in Berlin. In 1885 he wrote his doctoral thesis under Leopold Kronecker and Karl Weierstrass . In 1891 he completed his habilitation at the University of Halle . He later worked as a professor at the University of Königsberg (extraordinary professor from 1895 to 1897), the University of Kiel (full professor, 1897 to 1905), the University of Hanover (1905 to 1908), the TH Karlsruhe (1908 to 1913) and the Ruprecht-Karls -University of Heidelberg (1913 to 1919).

Stäckel occupied himself a. a. with math history. He published the correspondence between Carl Friedrich Gauß and Wolfgang Bolyai , was involved in the publication of the works of Euler and Gauß (for which he wrote a contribution by Gauss as a geometer ) and published the geometrical studies of Wolfgang and Johann Bolyai (1913). He also translated works by Jakob I Bernoulli , Johann I Bernoulli , Augustin Louis Cauchy , Leonhard Euler , Joseph-Louis Lagrange , Adrien-Marie Legendre and Carl Gustav Jacobi into German for the Ostwalds Klassiker series.

In 1905 he was President of the German Mathematicians Association . In 1895 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , and since 1911 he has been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1906 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Publications

  • On the movement of a point on a surface , 1885, dissertation
  • The integration of the Hamilton-Jacobian differential equation by means of separation of the variables , 1891, habilitation. Digitized Univ. Heidelberg
  • Franz Adolph Taurinus. A contribution to the prehistory of non-Euclidean geometry . In: Journal for Mathematics and Physics / Supplement , Volume 14 (1899), pp. 401-427. Digitized Univ. Heidelberg
  • History of Function Theory in the Eighteenth Century . In: Bibliotheca Mathematica . 3rd episode, 2 (1901), pp. 111-121. Digitized Univ. Heidelberg
  • Elementary dynamics of mathematical science in: Encyclopadie der Mathematischen Wissenschaft IV, 1 (1908)
  • Various publications in the Mathematische Annalen (between 1890 and 1909)
  • Several contributions in Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class between 1896 and 1917.
  • with Friedrich Engel's theory of parallel lines from Euclid to Gauss , 1895

literature

  • Felix Pfister: The Gaussian Principle and the Lagrangeian: Notes on a hardly noticed work by Paul Staeckel . In: Journal for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. - 77 (1997), pp. 7-12
  • Michael von Renteln: Paul Stäckel (1862-1919): mathematician and mathematician historian . In: Overviews of Mathematics. - 1996/97, pp. 151-160

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Dörflinger: Paul Stäckel (material collection from Historia Mathematica Heidelbergensis). September 27, 2016, accessed June 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ Gabriele Dörflinger: Mathematics in the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . 2014, pp. 77-78
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 230.


personal data
SURNAME Stäckel, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stäckel, Paul Gustav Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1919
Place of death Heidelberg