Karl Bopp

Karl Bopp ( born March 28, 1877 in Rastatt; † 5 December 1934 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian of mathematics.

Bopp was the son of a doctor and went to school in Rastatt. He studied from 1895 in Strasbourg and Heidelberg, among others, Moritz Cantor. In 1902 he received his doctorate at Cantor ( and Leo Koenigsberger ), the thesis of Antoine Arnauld acted. He habilitated in 1906 with a thesis on the conics of Gregorius a Sancto Vincentio and in 1915 associate professor in Heidelberg, the professor was able to start because of his military service in World War I but not until 1919. As the successor to Cantor he taught the history of mathematics, political arithmetic, and insurance. Since 1933 he was confined to bed due to illness, the death occurred in 1935.

Bopp's specialty was research about Johann Heinrich Lambert. He gave Lamberts month book whose correspondence with Abraham Gotthelf Kästner and Leonhard Euler, and whose philosophical writings out. Bopp wrote works on the history of elliptic functions and published a work of Nicolas Fatio de Duillier about gravity. He had 15 doctoral students.

He was secretary of the Department of History of Mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Heidelberg in 1904 and organized in 1929, the 100 - year celebration of the birthday of his highly honored teacher Moritz Cantor in Heidelberg.

Swell

• William Lorey: Karl Bopp. In: Annual Report of the German Mathematical Society. Volume 45, 1935, pp. 116-119 ( digitized ).