Sigismund Ferdinand Hartmann

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Sigismund Ferdinand Hartmann (born October 28, 1632 in Vienna , † June 17, 1681 in Prague ) was a theologian and mathematician of the 17th century.

Life

In 1647 Hartmann became a member of the Jesuit order , was ordained a priest and earned a doctorate in theology . He then lived for a short time in Brno and became a professor of mathematics at the University of Wroclaw . From 1664 to 1667 he taught in Olomouc at what is now Palacký University in Olomouc . Hartmann then became professor of theology at Charles University in Prague , and in 1678 was dean and senior of the faculty of philosophy. In Prague he also taught geometry and mathematics and was called the "Bohemian Euclid ". Most of his works written in Latin were lost.

Hartmann was known for setting a geometric problem every year. In September 1679 he asked who could double the area of ​​an equiangular triangle. This question inspired the members of the religious order of the Piarists and acquaintances of the pioneer of the Enlightenment Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Augustin Thomas Sackl (Sakl, Säckel) (1646–1717), from 1697 Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at the Piarist College in Horn (Lower Austria) to write his book “ Metamorphosis geometrica proportionum vinculis expedica ”(1690), which was followed in 1713 by the book: Silloge Epistolarum Mathematicarum.

Works

  • Propositiones astronomicae, 1662
  • Observatio cometae, 1664 (German: "Observations of the comet from 1664")
  • Catoptrica illustrata posisionibus mathematica, 1668 (German: "Katoptrik")
  • Methemorphosisch geometrica proportionum vinculis expedita, 1680

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personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Sigismund Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1681
Place of death Prague