Nationality German Fields Mathematics Alma mater Heidelberg University | Role Professor of mathematics Name Karl Bopp | |
Born March 28, 1877
Rastatt ( 1877-03-28 ) Institutions University of Heidelberg Doctoral students Erwin Christmann
Grete Leibowitz Died December 5, 1934, Heidelberg, Germany Doctoral advisor Moritz Cantor, Leo Konigsberger Similar People Moritz Cantor, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Leo Konigsberger | ||
Institution Heidelberg University | ||
Karl Bopp (28 March 1877 – 5 December 1934) was a German historian of mathematics.
Biography
Bopp studied at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Heidelberg under Moritz Cantor. In 1906 he habilitated with a work about the conic sections of Gregorius a Sancto Vincenti, and in 1915 he became professor extraordinarius in Heidelberg. As successor of Moritz Cantor he taught history of mathematics, political arithmetic, and Insurance. In 1933 he became ill and died in 1934.
Bopp's special field of interest were researches about Johann Heinrich Lambert. He edited Lambert's Monatsbuch, his letter exchanges with Leonhard Euler and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, and his philosophical writings. Bopp wrote many historical papers, including two studies on the history of elliptic functions, and the re-publication of a paper by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier on the cause of gravitation. Under his supervision many dissertations were written by his students.