Olaus Henrici
Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici ( born March 9, 1840 in Meldorf; † August 10, 1918 in Chandler 's Ford, Hampshire, England ) was a German mathematician.
Life
Henrici went in 1859 to study at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe, where he was particularly influenced by Clebsch. On whose advice and recommendation, he went in 1862 to the University of Heidelberg to study with Hesse. There he was on 6 June 1863 with a later published in the Journal Crelle work of Dr. phil. doctorate. After further studies in Berlin with Weierstrass and Kronecker, he became in 1865 a lecturer in mathematics and physics at the University of Kiel. Due to insufficient funds, he gave this place but soon and went to London, where he earned his living for several years through private lessons. In 1869 he was first assistant, on 4 June in 1870 professor of mathematics at University College London ( UCL). In March 1884 he was appointed Professor of Mechanics and Mathematics at the City and Guilds College ( also Central Technical College) in London. There he established a mechanical laboratory in which mathematical models and equipment were built. The most famous of which is probably a harmonic analyzer, a device that can be determined with the Fourier coefficients of a periodic function.
In 1874 Henrici was a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1882/83 he was in the Council. From 1882 to 1884 he was President of the London Mathematical Society. The University of St Andrews awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1884.
Henrici 1877 married the sister of a colleague. The marriage went forth a son, the officer was in the engineer corps of the British Army. Henrici wrote a joint work with his son.
Works
- Olaus Henrici: Skeleton structures: Especially In Their application to the building of steel and iron bridges. New York: Van Nostrand, 1867.
- Olaus Henrici: Elementary geometry of congruent figures. London: Longmans, Green, in 1879.
- Olaus Henrici and George Charles Turner: Vectors and rotors: with applications, London: Arnold, 1903.