Samson Breuer
Samson Breuer (born April 22, 1891 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 9, 1974 in Jerusalem ) was a German-born Israeli mathematician .
Life
Samson Breuer, son of Orthodox Rabbi Solomon Breuer and Sophie Hirsch, visited Breuer founded by his father yeshiva and the secondary school in Frankfurt am Main. After graduating from high school , he studied at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences from 1909 , from 1910 at the Universities of Gießen , Heidelberg , Strasbourg , Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen , before receiving his doctorate in Frankfurt under Arthur Moritz Schoenflies in 1915 ( On the irreducible trinomic Fifth degree equations ).
After participating from 1915 to 1918 as a war volunteer in World War I and habilitation (contributions to Abel’s equation problem, 1921), Breuer was transferred to a private lecturer in 1921 and an extraordinary professor of mathematics at the TH Karlsruhe in 1925 . From 1928 to 1933 he was also a lecturer in actuarial mathematics at the University of Frankfurt. After his release by the National Socialists , he emigrated to Palestine in 1933 .
There he worked for an insurance company from 1934 to 1945, headed the insurance department of the Israeli Ministry of Finance from 1949 to 1954 and was appointed chief actuary of the National Insurance Institute in Jerusalem from 1954 to 1966 .
Samson Breuer wrote articles on solvable equations, group theory and actuarial questions in insurance, among other things .
Fonts
- On the irreductible solvable fifth degree trinomial equations, dissertation , Noske, 1918, online
- Contributions to Abel's equation problem, Springer, 1921 (habilitation thesis). Excerpt: The Abel equation problem in Euler , Annual Report of the German Mathematicians Association, Volume 30, 1921, pp. 158-169, online .
- On the irreducible solvable equations of the fifth degree, CF Müller, 1925
- Introduction to Life Insurance Technology, 1930
- The Stieltjes integral term and its utilization in actuarial mathematics, 1931
- Probability of Hit Numbers and Connected Life Insurance, 1932
literature
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 2. KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , page 126.
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
- Maximilian Pinl : Colleagues in a Dark Time , Annual Report DMV, Volume 73, 1971, pp. 169–170.
- Breuer, Samson , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 94
Web links
- Literature by and about Samson Breuer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Samson Breuer (1891-1974) ( Memento from December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Heidelberg University Library
- Biography of Samson Breuer on the homepage of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samson Breuer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breuer, Samson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-born Israeli mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1974 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |