Name Siegmund Guenther | Fields Mathematics | |
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Born 6 February 1848
Nuremberg, Germany ( 1848-02-06 ) Thesis Studien zur theoretischen Photometrie (1872) Died February 3, 1923, Munich, Germany Books Lehrbuch Der Determinanten-Theorie Fur Studirende - Scholar's Choice Edition | ||
Adam Wilhelm Siegmund Günther (6 February 1848 – 3 February 1923) was a German geographer, mathematician, historian of mathematics and natural scientist.
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Early life
Born in 1848 to a German businessman, Gunther would go on to attend several German universities including Erlangen, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Berlin, and Göttingen.
Career
In 1872 he began teaching at a school in Weissenburg, Bavaria. He completed his habilitation thesis titled Darstellung der Näherungswerte der Kettenbrüche in independenter Form in 1873. The next year he began teaching at Munich Polytechnicum. In 1876, he began teaching at a university in Ansbach where he stayed for several years before moving to Munich and becoming a professor of geography until he retired.
His mathematical work included works on the determinant, hyperbolic functions, and parabolic logarithms and trigonometry.