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Paul ver Eecke (born February 13, 1867 in Menin , † October 14, 1959 in Berchem (Antwerp) ) was a Belgian mining engineer and mathematician.

He attended the Mining Academy (École des mines) in Liège from 1888 to 1891 and then worked for a while as a mining engineer. After the labor inspectorate was established in Belgium in 1894, he served there as an inspector until his retirement. When he was temporarily removed from office by the German occupation during the First World War, he began to study Greek mathematicians.

He published some of the French translations of ancient mathematicians that are still considered exemplary today, such as the works of Archimedes (1921), the conic sections by Apollonios of Perge (1923), the arithmetic of Diophant of Alexandria (1926), the spherics of Theodosius of Bithynia (1927) ), the works of Serenus by Antinoupolis (1929), the works of Pappos (1933), the optics of Euclid (1938), the Euclidean commentary by Proclus , works by Didymos Chalkenteros , Anthemios von Tralleis and Fibonacci (Livre des nombres Carrés, 1952).

From 1946 to 1950 he was President of the Comité Belge d'Histoire des Sciences, founded in 1933.

He should not be confused with the French mathematics professor of the same name, Paul ver Eecke (1934–1987) at the Université de Picardie.

literature

  • Biography in Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph Scriba (editor) Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002
  • Article in Poggendorff, Biographical-Literary Concise Dictionary of Exact Natural Sciences

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