Hermann Kinkelin

Hermann Kinkelin ( born November 11, 1832 in Bern, † January 2, 1913 in Basel) was a Swiss mathematician and politician.

Life

His family came from Lindau on Lake Constance, 1867, he was naturalized in Basel. Kinkelin was 1865-1895 Professor of Mathematics at the University of Basel. He was an eminent statistician, he founded the Swiss Statistical Society and the Statistical- economic society in Basel and directed in 1870 and 1880, the Federal census in Basel.

Kinkelin was free Inniger. From 1867 to 1902 he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, 1877 and 1879 as its president. From 1890 to 1899 he was the National Council.

The constant of Glaisher - Kinkelin bears the names of JWL Glaisher and Kinkelin. In Basel are after him the Hermann- Kinkelin -Strasse, the Hermann- Kinkelin schoolhouse (see High School Cherry Orchard ) and named the Hermann- Kinkelin gym.

Writings

Article

  • Investigation into the formula Archive Mathematics and Physics 22, 1854, pp. 189-224 (Google Books, ditto)
  • The fundamental equations of the function Γ (x ), Communications of the Natural History Society in Berne 385 and 386, 1857, pp. 1-11 ( Internet Archive, ditto)
  • About a kindred with the Gamma Function transcendent and their application to the integral calculus, Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 57, 1860, pp. 122-138 ( GDZ )
  • The oblique axonometric projection, quarterly magazine of the Society of Natural Sciences in Zurich 6, 1861, pp. 358-367 (Google Books)
  • On the Theory of Prismoides, Archives of Mathematics and Physics 39, 1862, pp. 181-186 (Google Books, ditto, ditto)
  • Proof of the three brothers for the expression of the triangular content through the pages, Archives of Mathematics and Physics 39, 1862, pp. 186-188 (Google Books, ditto, ditto)
  • New evidence of the presence complexer roots in an algebraic equation, Mathematische Annalen 1, 1869, pp. 502-506 (Google Books, GDZ, Year Book review )
  • The calculation of the Christian Easter, Journal of Mathematics and Physics 15, 1870, pp. 217-228 ( Internet Archive )
  • The lecture in Basel mathematician Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler, negotiations of Natural History Society in Basel 7 (Appendix), 1884, pp. 51-71 ( Internet Archive )
  • Constructions of the centers of curvature of conics, Journal of Mathematics and Physics 40, 1895, pp. 58-59 ( Internet Archive, Year Book review )
  • For the gamma function, negotiations of Natural History Society in Basel 16, 1903, pp. 309-328 ( Internet Archive, ditto)

Monographs

  • General theory of harmonic series with application to the theory of numbers, Schweighauser, Basel 1862 ( Google Books)
  • . Mutual Huelfsgesellschaften of Switzerland in 1865, Les sociétés de secours mutuels de la suisse en 1865 GA Bonfantini, Basel 1868 (Google Books; review )
  • Short Instruction on the metric weights and measures, 1876; Reprints: Andreas Maechler, Riehen 2006, ISBN 3-905837-02-1
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