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Name
  
Max Simon


Role
  
Mathematician

Max Simon (mathematician)

Born
  
June 8, 1844 Kolobrzeg (
1844-06-08
)

Thesis
  
De relationibus inter constantes duarum linearum secundi ordinis, ut sit polygonum alteri inscriptum circumscriptum alteri (1867)

Academic advisors
  
Karl Weierstrass, Ernst Eduard Kummer

Died
  
January 15, 1918, Strasbourg, France

Alma mater
  
Humboldt University of Berlin

Maximilian Simon (born 8 June 1844 in Kołobrzeg; died 15 January 1918 in Strasbourg) was a German historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher. He was concerned mostly with mathematics in the antiquity.

He studied from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. from Karl Weierstrass und Ernst Eduard Kummer He was a mathematics teacher in Berlin from 1868 to 1871, and in Strasbourg from 1871 to 1912, where he became an honorary professor of the university.

Works

  • Euclid und die sechs planimetrischen Bücher, Teubner 1901
  • Über die Entwicklung der Elementargeometrie im 19 Jahrhundert, Bericht der Deutschen Mathematikervereinigung, Teubner 1906
  • Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte, Berlin: B. Cassirer 1909
  • Nichteuklidische Geometrie in elementarer Behandlung (Kuno Fladt ed.), Teubner 1925
  • Analytische Geometrie der Ebene, 3rd edition, Sammlung Göschen 1900
  • Analytische Geometrie des Raumes, 2 volumes, Sammlung Göschen 1900, 1901

    • References

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