Summary
Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Meyer (1856–1934) was a German mathematician and one of the main editors of the Encyclopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften.
Wilhelm Franz Meyer | |
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| Born | 2 September 1856 |
| Died | 11 June 1934 (aged 77) |
| Education | Leipzig University University of Munich |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Tübingen Bergakademie of Clausthal University of Königsberg |
| Thesis | Anwendungen der Topologie auf die Gestalten der algebraischen Curven, speciell der rationalen Curven 4. und 5. Ordnung (1878) |
Life and work edit
Meyer studied in the universities of Leipzig and Munich. In 1878, he was awarded a doctorate by Munich. He studied further in Berlin under Weierstrass, Kummer and Kronecker. In 1880, he got the venia legendi at the University of Tübingen. In 1888, he became a full professor at the Bergakademie of Clausthal (today Clausthal University of Technology). From October 1897 until October 1924, when he retired, he taught at the University of Königsberg.[1]
The wide research work of Meyer (more than 130 papers) is centred basically on geometry and, specifically, on invariant theory.[2]
Notwithstanding he is mainly known for he was one of the main editors[3] of the Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften published from 1898 to 1933 in 23 separate books. Meyer was directly in charge to edit the geometry volumes.[4]
References edit
- ^ Burau 2008, p. Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
- ^ Parshall 1990, pp. 13–15.
- ^ Gray 2008, p. 116.
- ^ de Siqueira 2015, p. 36.
Bibliography edit
- de Siqueira, Rogerio Monteiro (2015). "Editing geometries: The geometry volumes in Klein's encyclopedia". Circumscribere. 15: 35–47. ISSN 1980-7651.
- Gray, Jeremy (2008). Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13610-3.
- Parshall, Karen V. H. (1990). "The one-hundredth anniversary of the death of invariant theory?". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 12 (4): 10–16. doi:10.1007/BF03024027. ISSN 0343-6993. S2CID 117771242.
External links edit
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Wilhelm Franz Meyer", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Burau, Werner (2008). "Meyer, Wilhelm Franz". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Retrieved June 24, 2018.