Maximilian Simon (born 8 June 1844 in

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; died 15 January 1918 in

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) was a German historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher. He was concerned mostly with mathematics in antiquity. Born into a

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family, he studied from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of

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, obtaining his Ph.D. from

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und

Ernst Eduard Kummer Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a '' gymnasium'', the German equivalent of h ...

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

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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'' ( ed.), Teubner 1925 * ''Analytische Geometrie der Ebene'', 3rd edition, 1900 * ''Analytische Geometrie des Raumes'', 2 volumes, Sammlung Göschen 1900, 1901

References

Joseph W. Dauben Joseph Warren Dauben (born December 29, 1944, Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He obtained his PhD f ...

, Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): ''Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development''. Birkhäuser, Basel 2002, , (''Science networks'' 27), p. 522. 19th-century German Jews 19th-century German mathematicians 1844 births 1918 deaths University of Strasbourg alumni 20th-century German mathematicians {{mathematician-stub