Eduard Study

Eduard Study, more Christian Hugo Eduard Study ( born March 23, 1862 in Coburg, † January 6, 1930 in Bonn ) was a German mathematician.

Study made ​​, among other significant contributions to the theory of invariants of ternary forms to hypercomplex numbers and spherical trigonometry. In addition, he also provided contributions to biology, quantum chemistry and philosophy. Study was a lifelong solitary autodidact.

Life

Eduard Study was born on 23 March 1862 as a son of Carl Traugott Wilhelm Study and Caroline Therese Henriette von Langsdorff in Coburg. His father was a professor of German, Latin, Greek, and history at the high school in Coburg. His maternal great-grandfather, Karl Christian von Langsdorf, had been a professor of mathematics; his maternal grandfather, Wilhelm Gustav von Langsdorff ( Gustav Wilhelm Lang village ( 1803-1847 ) ), had taught Applied Mathematics as well as mining and salt plant customer.

Study was four years old when his mother died. The father married two years later, his sister in law who also died a few years later, when Eduard Study was eleven years old. In the following years he was educated by the strict hand of the Father.

Eduard Study graduated from high school in Coburg and started in the winter semester 1880/1881 study at the University of Jena biologist Ernst Haeckel at. He was passionate about at this time of biology alike as the geometry. For both subjects, there were already first publications of Study.

Study changed in the winter semester 1881/1882 at the University of Strasbourg, where he studied with Theodor Reye (1838-1919) and dealt with the new synthetic method. He then moved to the winter semester 1882/1883 at the University of Leipzig, returned in the fall of 1883 shortly again back to Strasbourg and then studied in Munich.

1884 Study successfully turned the symbolic calculus on to win first prize at a price objective of the Technical University of Munich. In 1885 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Grassmann extension theory.

After study returned to the University of Leipzig, where he began work for his habilitation at Felix Klein. During this time he was sent along with David Hilbert, Small to a study visit to Paris; later joined yet a stay in Erlangen.

After study had habilitated, 1888 he married his cousin Lina von Langsdorff; the two had an only child, a daughter Trude ( born June 26, 1889).

As his relationship had become very problematic to small, left Study in July 1888 Leipzig and took a scholarship lecturer in Marburg.

1889 Study published his first book method in the theory of ternary forms, which, however, it sold only in 1982 and significant attention was in a initiated by Gian- Carlo Rota edition.

From July 1893 to April 1894 he lived at various universities in the United States. He then took a position as associate professor in Bonn, which he held until 1897.

In 1897 he received his first appointment as a full professor at the University of Greifswald. During this time, Study wrote his greatest work published in 1903 Geometry of Dynamen.

In 1904 he moved to a full professor position at the University of Bonn. At the end of the summer semester 1927 he became Professor Emeritus.

On January 6, died in 1930 Study of stomach cancer. The cremation took place in Mainz on January 9; The urn was placed in Bonn Poppelsdorf cemetery.

Works

• Spherical Trigonometry, orthogonal substitutions, and elliptic functions: analytic - geometric investigation. Teubner, Leipzig, 1893.
• Geometry of the Dynamen. The composition of forces and related objects of geometry. Teubner, Leipzig, 1903.
• Introduction to the theory of invariants. In 1923.