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Wilhelm Franz Meyer

Wilhelm Franz Meyer

German mathematician

Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Meyer (1856–1934) was a German mathematician and one of the main editors of the Encyclopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften.

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Life and work

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

  1. [1]
    Burau 2008, p. Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
  2. [2]
    Parshall 1990, pp. 13–15.
  3. [3]
    Gray 2008, p. 116.
  4. [4]
    de Siqueira 2015, p. 36.

Bibliography

  • 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.
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