Franz Meyer (mathematician)
Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Meyer (born September 2, 1856 in Magdeburg , † April 11, 1934 in Königsberg , East Prussia ) was a German mathematician .
Life
FWF Meyer's parents were Friedrich Wilhelm Julius Meyer and M. Elise Johanna Amalie, geb. Knorr. The father was a domain rentmaster , later a domain councilor in Magdeburg and Friedeberg / Neumark . Meyer attended the Domgymnasium in his hometown, where he passed the Abitur at Easter 1874. He studied natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1874 to summer semester 1875) with Carl Gottfried Neumann , then in Munich at the Royal Polytechnic School (now the Technical University of Munich ), especially with Felix Klein . From the winter semester 1875/76 until the winter semester 1877/78 he studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he at 15. March 1878 work "applications of topology to the figures of algebraic curves" for Dr. phil. received his doctorate. From 1878 to 1880 he continued his studies in Berlin with Karl Weierstrass , Ernst Eduard Kummer and Leopold Kronecker . In 1880, the philosophy faculty of the University of Würzburg praised the habilitation on the subject of “apolarity and rational curves, a systematic preliminary investigation into a general theory of linear spaces” with Paul du Bois-Reymond in Tübingen . There he worked as a private lecturer , later an extraordinary professor (from 1885) and associate professor (from 1887). In 1888 he followed a call to the Clausthal Mining Academy and from there, after Hilbert's departure, moved to Göttingen to the Albertina in Königsberg in 1897/98 . He worked there until his retirement in 1924.
Meyer's main field of work was geometry. Meyer, however, appeared less as the creator of new theories or the founder of new sub-disciplines of mathematics (such as his contemporaries Hilbert, Klein, Cantor or Minkowski ), but as a folder and collector of mathematical knowledge and as a textbook author and editor of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences
FWF Meyer was a member of numerous professional societies:
- 1890 founding member of the German Mathematicians Association (1902 its chairman)
- 1892 Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists (Leopoldina)
- Member of the Berlin Mathematical Society
- Member of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo
- Corresponding member of the Société Royale des Sciences de Liège
- 1933 member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Fonts (selection)
- Apolarity and rational curves. Tubingen 1883.
- On the economy of thinking in elementary mathematics , in: Annual Report DMV Vol. 7, 1899 ( digitized version )
- Report on the current state of the invariant theory , in: Annual Report DMV, Vol. 1, 1890/91 ( digitized version )
- Invariant theory , in: Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 1, 1899 ( digitized version )
literature
- Rudolf Fritsch : Meyer, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 336 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Obituary by B. Arndt, in: Annual Report DMV, Vol. 45, 1935 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- F. Rudolf Fritsch (Prof. emeritus University of Munich): Short biography (pdf; 82 kB)
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Franz Meyer (mathematician). In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Joachim Vollrath : About the appointment of Aurel Voss to the chair for mathematics in Würzburg. In: Würzburger medical history reports , Volume 11, 1993, pp. 133–151, here: p. 146 f. ( The appointment proposal ).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Meyer, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Friedrich Wilhelm Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1934 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg , East Prussia |