Hans Heinrich Rudolf Beck was a German

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. Hans Beck was born 16 August 1876 in Altzarrendorf, Kreis Grimmon, Province of Pomerania, Prussia. He studied science at University of Griefswald. In 1902 he taught in Ostern, in 1903 in Hannover, and from 1909 to 1917 in

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. He began research with

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and produced a dissertation on

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. He translated Maxime Bôcher's ''Introduction to Higher Algebra'' in 1910. In 1917 he took a position at the university. He produced a

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in 1919, and was promoted to

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in 1920. His ''Introduction to the Axiomatics of Algebra'' appeared in 1926. He died in

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on 24 October 1942. He was a member of mathematical societies:

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, Berliner Mathmatischer Gesellschaft, and

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Works

* 1910: (as translator) ''Einführung in die höhere Algebra'' by Maxime Bôcher * 1910
Ein Seitenstück zur Mobius'schen Geometrie der Kreisverwandschaften

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11 * 1919: ''Koordinatengeometrie'',

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* 1926: ''Einfuhrung in die Axiomatik der Algebra''C. H. Langford (1928
Review of ''Einfuhrung in die Axiomatic der Algebra''

References

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in Science International'' (1914) page 150 * P. Weinmeister (1926
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''Poggendorffs'' Bd V 1926 pages 78,9 * Franz Kössler (2008) "Beck, Hans", ''Personenlexikon von Lehrern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Berufsbiographien aus Schul-Jahresberichten und Schulprogrammen 1825–1918 mit Veröffentlichungsverzeichnissen'', Vorabdruck (Preprint) Auflage. Baack – Buzello, S. 128 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Beck, Hans 1876 births 1942 deaths German geometers