Carl Hindenburg

Carl Friedrich Hindenburg (* July 13, 1741 in Dresden, † March 17, 1808 in Leipzig ) was a German mathematician, professor of philosophy and physics.

Hindenburg was the son of Dresdner wholesaler. He was taught by a private tutor. In 1757 he went to the University of Leipzig and took courses in medicine, philosophy, physics, mathematics and aesthetics. 1771 he received his Master's degree and was appointed Privatdozent.

Prior to his appointment as Assistant Professor in 1763 and in 1769 published Hindenburg several writings in the field of philology. The first publications in the field of mathematics, he made 1776. Two years later he published his thesis on Combinatorial Mathematics. In the following years until 1800, he published a series of mathematical writings. Hindenburg became known as the inventor of the combinatorial analysis a name. Among his writings are particularly worthy of mention, edited by Daniel Bernoulli journal Leipzig magazine for Pure and Applied Mathematics ( Leipzig 1786-1789 ), the archive of pure and applied mathematics (Leipzig 1794-1801 ) and the collection combinato - driven analytical essays (Leipzig 1796, 1800).

1781 Hindenburg was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. After the presentation of a thesis on water pumps, he was in 1786 appointed as a professor of physics, as he then worked mainly in the next 20 years.