Pieter Hendrik Schoute

Pieter Hendrik Schoute ( born January 21, 1846 in Woutermeer, The Netherlands, † April 18, 1913 in Groningen, The Netherlands ) was a Dutch mathematician.

Life

Schoute was the first civil engineer, but his doctorate in 1870 in Leiden in Mathematics ( homographies applied to square faces ), and then taught from 1871 to 1874 as a secondary school in Nijmegen and then until 1881 in The Hague. From 1881 he was professor of mathematics at the University of Groningen, after he had already begun in 1878 to publish mathematical work regularly.

Schoute dealt with geometry, such as algebraic curves, projective geometry, or the theory of polyhedra, where he worked from 1895 with Alicia Boole Stott and published several papers on polytopes in higher dimensions with her from 1900.

From 1898 to 1913 he was editor of the " Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde " as well as co-founder and editor of the Review- Journal " Revue semestrielle of publications Mathématiques ", which was founded in 1893. In 1886 he was elected to the Dutch Academy of Sciences.

At the request of Caesar Hannibal Hermann Schubert wrote some math textbooks in the " Collection of mathematical textbooks " ("The linear spaces ", 1902, " The Polytope " 1905).

Writings

• Multidimensional geometry. Part One: The linear spaces GJ Goschen, Leipzig, 1902
• Multidimensional geometry. Part Two: The polytopes GJ Goschen, Leipzig, 1905