Heinrich Maschke
Heinrich Maschke ( born October 24, 1853 in Breslau, † 1 March 1908 in Chicago ) was a German mathematician.
Life
Maschkes father was a prominent physician. Son Henry attended from 1863 to 1872, the Mary Magdalene Gymnasium in Breslau. He then studied at the University of Heidelberg, but had to return to Breslau in 1873 to do his one-year military service. In Berlin, he then continued his studies. In 1878 he laid there on the exam for teachers at secondary schools. But he sought a teaching position at a university. He first went to Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1879 at the Faculty of Arts. When he realized that a teacher at a university was hopeless at first for him, he went in 1880 as a teacher at the Luisenstädtische school in Berlin. Working as a teacher at a high school made him personally, although come to the conclusion that he worked in the wrong profession, but in reality he was a very good teacher. 1886/87 he had a leave of absence and went to Göttingen. In Prof. Felix Klein he met his fellow students Oskar Bolza Berlin, with the later a close friendship him. Maschke 1887 published his first scientific paper. Although he once again went back to Berlin and was doing his duty as a mathematics teacher, 1889, but decided to abandon the master's work definitively. His friend Bolza was now in the U.S. and had received a call to Clark University in Worcester (Massachusetts ).
Maschke, who would have liked also went straight to the U.S., was warned by Bolza, that it was not so easy to get a foothold in academic positions. Maschke therefore also studied electrical engineering in Berlin and then in Darmstadt. In 1891 he emigrated to the USA and worked for a year in a company for electric instruments in the State of New Jersey. 1882 The University of Chicago was founded. Bolza was among the first faculty and he made sure that Maschke came to Chicago. Together with the head of the mathematics department, Eliakim Moore, they sat down intensively for a research-based mathematical training center. Maschke was associate professor in 1896 and full professor in 1907.
He corresponded further with Klein in Göttingen. Maschke published in 1896 his work "On the arithmetic nature of the coefficients of the linear substitutions of finite substitution groups ". 1897 published more research results: " proof of the proposition that those finite linear Substitutionesgruppen in which some by gehends vanishing coefficients occur are intransitive ."
Maschkes second field of work was the differential geometry. In addition to Moore, it was also Maschkes success that the outstanding reputation of the Mathematics Department of the University of Chicago has been continuously strengthened. By Klein's mediation an important contribution appeared in " Mathematische Annalen " in Germany. His work and research results were published, among others, in " Transactions of the American Mathematical Society ". After Maschke was 1902-1905 Council of the American Mathematical Society, 1907 he became its vice president. Moore recognized increasingly that the procedure of Klein in Göttingen Bolza and Maschke also had a great influence on his work in Chicago. He wrote to Klein in 1904:
" Certainly in the domain of mathematics German scholars in general and yourself in Particular have played, by way of example and counsel and direct and indirect inspiration, quite a leading role in the development of creative mathematicians in this country ... "
According to him, the set of Maschke is named.