David Bierens de Haan

David Bierens de Haan ( May 3, 1822 in Amsterdam, † August 12, 1895 in Leiden ) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of science.

Life

He was the son of the wealthy merchant Abraham Pieterszoon de Haan ( born December 12, 1795 in Amsterdam, † October 25, 1880 in Oostbroek h ) and Catharina Jacoba Bierens ( born January 9, 1797 in Amsterdam, † September 12, 1835 ibid ). After he had received different training, his father to study law appointed him. So he moved into 1841, the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam. In the same year he enrolled on January 2, 1841 the University of Leiden. However, more his interest were the exact sciences, which he studied from September 1842. On 15 May 1847 he received his doctorate in Leiden at Gideon Verdam Janus ( 1802-1866 ) with the work of De lemniscata Bernouillana of Doctor of Philosophy. On August 28, 1848 he was professor of natural science and mathematics at the high school in Deventer. During that time he published a number of articles to primary education and mathematics.

On 5 May 1856 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, for the magazine from 1874 to 1893, he wrote thirty-three articles. He was also a member of the Dutch Society of Sciences at Haarlem, the provincial Utrechtschen Society of Arts and Sciences, the Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy, foreign member of the imperial sciences in Kazan, a member of the Academie Imperiale of science, inscriptions et belles lettres in Toulouse, the British Association he continued advancement of science and the Danish society of Sciences. In 1857, he was Board of Education in Deventer and took care of there as a councilor from 1858 to different areas of training. On June 21, 1863, he was appointed by Royal Decree associate professor of mathematics and physics.

This position he resigned on December 25, 1863 with the introduction speech Over de magt van het zoogenaamd onbestaanbare in de wiskunde. On December 24, 1866, he was appointed a full professor. In this capacity, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was 1872/73 as rector of the Alma Mater. He was co-editor since 1888 of the Oeuvres complètes by Christiaan Huygens and edited 1892, the algebra of Willem Smaasen ( 1820-1850 ). He possessed a very extensive library on mathematics, history of science and education, this is now in the Leiden University Library. His most important mathematical achievement was the publication of a very large integral table of definite integrals. On June 28, 1892 he was given emeritus status by Royal Decree from his chair and said goodbye on September 20, 1892 in retirement.

Family

Bierens_de_Haan had on 31 March 1852 in Deventer. Johanna Catharina Justina de Schepper (* 13 April 1827 in Deventer, † January 25, 1906 in Haarlem ), the daughter of Jacob Wolter IJssel de Schepper ( born January 24, 1799 in Deventer, † April 23, 1850 ibid ), and Susanna Maria Petronella van Berkhout Teding ( born April 13, 1802 in Olst, † May 14 1880 in Heemstede ), married. From the marriage come seven daughters and two sons. Of the children are known:

  • Catharina Jacoba Abrahamina Bierens de Haan ( born January 10, 1853 in Deventer, † December 21, 1929 in Amersfoort ) m. March 14, 1878 in Leiden with Marcellus Crommelin ( born September 11, 1851 in Amsterdam, † 1 October 1931 in Amersfoort )
  • Wolter Jacob Bierens de Haan ( * April 29, 1854 in Deventer, † 29 August at The Hague ) m. September 13, 1882 in Zwolle with Louisa Lucretia Roosenburg (* October 19, 1862 in Waalwijk, † December 26, 1947 in Amsterdam)
  • Hester Antonia Bierens de Haan ( born September 23, 1855 in Deventer, † March 16, 1865 in Leiden )
  • Suzanna Maria Petronella Gerhardina de Haan ( born July 6, 1857 in Deventer, † July 29, 1857 ibid )
  • Suzanna Maria Petronella Bierens de Haan ( born July 19, 1858 in Deventer, † February 25, 1865 in Leiden )
  • Petronella Johanna Hermance Bierens de Haan ( born December 21, 1859 in Deventer, † November 28, 1872 in Leiden )
  • Elise Charlotte Adolphine Jeannette de Haan ( * March 28, 1862 in Deventer, † October 21, 1865 in Leiden )
  • Maria Cornelia Johanna Bierens de Haan ( born June 6 1866 in Leiden, † January 20, 1941 in Utrecht ) m, October 25, 1888 Baron Willem Cornelis Röell ( born November 22, 1861 in The Hague, † March 18, 1937 in Utrecht)
  • Johan Catharinus Justus Bierens de Haan ( born November 17 1867 in Leiden, † December 18, 1951 in Amsterdam) was a surgeon and art collector

Works (selection)

  • Dissertatio de Mathematica inauguralis lemniscata Bernoulliana. Amsterdam 1847 ( Online)
  • De wiskunde as gedeelte van het onderwijs op schools. 1850
  • Réduction of intégrales définies générales. Amsterdam 1857 ( Online)
  • Tables d' intégrales définies. Amsterdam 1858 ( Online)
  • Gronden van de bepaalde theory of integral. 1858
  • Over eenige Gevallen bij de van onstadige theory ( discontinue ) functiën. Amsterdam 1858 ( Online)
  • Mémoire sur une méthode pour quelques deduire intégrales définies. 1860 ( Online)
  • Supplément aux tables d' intégrales définies. 1860 ( Online)
  • Exposé de la théorie, the propriétés, the formules de transformation d' évaluation et des méthodes of intégrales définies. 1860 1862
  • Het industrieel onderwijs. 1861
  • Front Ingen hemelligchamen in de photographic afbeelding van. 1862
  • Over de magt van het zoogenaamd onbestaanbare in de wiskunde. Deventer 1863 ( Online)
  • Overzigt van de differentiaalrekening. Leiden 1865 ( Online)
  • G. J. Verdam. 1866 ( Online)
  • Nouvelles tables d' intégrales définies. Leiden 1867 ( Online)
  • Het biljart. Leiden 1870 ( Online)
  • Feestviering ter EERE van het vierhonderd - jarig bestaan ​​Ludwig .... 1872 ( Online)
  • Notice sur Meindert Semeyns. 1873
  • Notice sur the tables logarithmiques Hollandaises. 1874
  • Over het differentieeren van eenige elliptic integral. 1878
  • Carel van Levensschets John Matthes. 1882
  • Levensschets van Isaac Paul Delprat. 1882
  • Een aanhangsel dead tafels van de onbepaalde integral. 1883, 2 vols
  • Bouwstoffen voor de geschiedenis the wis -en natuurkundige wetenschappen in de Nederlanden. 1878-1887, 2 vols
  • Bibliography néerlandaise historique - scientifique of ouvrages importants dont les auteurs sont nés aux 16e, 17e et 18e siècles, sur les sciences physiques et Mathématiques avec leurs applications. 1883
  • Leven report F. J. van van den Berg, en lijst zijner geschriften. 1895
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