Franz Woepcke

Franz Wöpcke ( born May 6, 1826 in Dessau, † March 25, 1864 in Paris) was a German mathematician and Orientalist, who had lived long in France.

He was the son of the Postmaster Ernst Ludwig Wöpcke from Wittenberg. After two years of study of Oriental Studies at the University of Bonn, in Leiden and Paris ( 1850) he was habilitated in March 1850 in Bonn as Privatdozent to have held without lectures. However, it did not occur to this service, but traveled to Paris for a long time. 1856 went out officially the office in Bonn. In 1855 he undertook his first major trip to Persia. In 1856 he took a teaching job (mathematics and physics ) at the French Gymnasium in Berlin, which he held until 1858. Then drove to the longing back to archive studies to Paris and Rome. He died in 1864 in Paris.

Wöpcke submitted, inter alia, against several publications on the history of mathematics among the Arabs. He gave the Algebra of Omar Khayyam and al- Karaji out (1853 ), dealt with the development of the Hindu-Arabic numerals system, Fibonacci and the reconstruction of the works of Euclid and Apollonius of Arabic translations.

Works

• L' algèbre d' Omar Alkhayyämi, publiée, traduite et accompagnée de manuscrits inédits, Paris, 1851.
• Etudes sur les Mathématiques Arabo - islamiques, Frankfurt 1986