Pieter Schoute
Pieter Hendrik Schoute (born January 21, 1846 in Wormerveer , Netherlands , † April 18, 1913 in Groningen , Netherlands) was a Dutch mathematician .
Life
Pieter Hendrik was the son of Dirk Schoute (1790–1861) and Cornelia Oosterhuijs (1802–1875). He attended high school in Deventer , studied from 1863 at the TU Delft and from 1867 at the University of Leiden . On June 22, 1870 he received his doctorate in mathematics and natural sciences with the thesis homography (homographies applied to square surfaces) . From 1871 he worked as a high school teacher in Nijmegen and from 1874 in The Hague . From 1878 he regularly published mathematical works. In 1881 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Groningen . His inaugural lecture on September 29, 1881 was entitled De kegelsneden in de projectivische meetkunde . The task entrusted to him included analytical, descriptive and higher geometry. Schoute dealt with geometry, for example algebraic curves, projective geometry or the theory of polyhedra , where he worked with Alicia Boole Stott from 1895 and published with her from 1900 some work on polytopes in higher dimensions.
From 1898 to 1913 he was editor of the "Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde" and co-founder and editor of the review journal "Revue semestrielle des publications mathématiques", which was founded in 1893. In 1886 he was elected to the Dutch Academy of Sciences, he was Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion and in 1892 he became Rector of the Groningen Alma Mater.
At the request of Hermann Schubert , he wrote some mathematical textbooks in his "collection of mathematical textbooks" ("The linear spaces", 1902, "The polytopes" 1905).
Schoute married on April 4, 18972 in Zaandam Mathilde Pekelharing (born March 11, 1846 in Zaandam, † October 11, 1930 in Groningen). There are six children from the marriage.
Fonts
- Multi-dimensional geometry. First part: The linear spaces GJ Göschen, Leipzig, 1902
- Multi-dimensional geometry. Second part: The polytopes GJ Göschen, Leipzig, 1905
literature
- Coxeter "Regular Polytopes", Dover 1973, p. 234 (biography)
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Pieter Schoute. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schoute, Pieter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schoute, Pieter Hendrik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wormerveer |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1913 |
| Place of death | Groningen |