Heinrich Burkhardt
Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt ( born October 10, 1861 in Schweinfurt, † November 2, 1914 in Neuwittelsbach in Munich) was a German mathematician.
Life and work
His mathematical talent was discovered and nurtured when you visit the school in Ansbach. From 1879 he studied in Munich ( at the University and Technical University ), Berlin and Göttingen, among others Alexander von Brill, Karl Weierstrass, Hermann Amandus Schwarz. It was 1886 in Munich doctorate at Gustav A. Bauer with the dissertation relations between invariant theory and the theory of algebraic integrals and their inverses. Then he went in 1887 as assistant to Göttingen and his habilitation in 1889. 1897 he became a full professor of mathematics at the University of Zurich and in 1908 at the Technical University Munich.
His areas of research related to the theory of elliptic functions, series expansions of mathematical physics, group theory and history of mathematics. He wrote several articles for the Encyclopedia of mathematical sciences, including about the history of Fourier series, in which he aufschlüsselt the historical literature in great detail and at length.
He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1909 and 1912 extraordinary ordinary member ), since 1896 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Writings
- " Series expansion in oscillating functions," Annual Report 1903 DMV
- With WF Meyer: " potential theory ", Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences, 1900
- " Trigonometric Interpolation", Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences, 1904
- " Trigonometric series and integrals ( up to 1850 ) ", Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences, 1914
- " Finite discrete groups ", Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences, 1898
- With L. Maurer: " Continuous transformation groups ", Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences, 1900
- " About mathematical and scientific thinking ", inaugural lecture Zurich 1897 Annual Report DMV