Friedrich Wilhelm August Ludwig Kiepert

Friedrich Wilhelm August Ludwig Kiepert ( born October 6, 1846 in Wroclaw, Lower Silesia, † September 5, 1934 in Hanover, Lower Saxony ) was a German mathematician and university professor.

Life

Father Ludwig Kiepert (1811-1847) was a Protestant pastor in Wroclaw. He died a year after the birth of his son Louis, who grew up without siblings so. Even his mother's father had been pastor. Ludwig attended from 1856 that Mary Magdalene Gymnasium in Breslau, which he left in 1865 with the Abitur. In the same year he began the study of mathematics at the University of Breslau. After his move to the Humboldt University in Berlin, it was mainly Karl Weierstrass, who greatly influenced him and his doctorate at the Kiepert 1870. He married at age 29, Anna Betz, with whom he had two children. His most mansions Kirchweg / corner Rühlmannstraße 1898 built house was the first of many professors who also built later in the quarter.

Performance

Through the mediation of Weierstrass Kiepert received in 1871 a lectureship at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg im Breisgau. A year later he became an associate professor here. 1877 Kiepert was a full professor of mathematics for two years at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 1879 he became Professor of Higher Mathematics at the Technical University of Hanover, where he from 1901 to 1904 took over the office of rector.

1890 was one of Ludwig Kiepert, together with Rudolf Sturm, one of the founding members of the German Mathematical Society (DMV). After 1893 Kiepert was also director of the Mathematical Association Prussian officials (now Hanover life insurance). He has made very particular deserve. In the field of insurance It is due to that mathematics has played a determining element of insurance.

With his close friend Felix Klein he founded in 1895 at the Georg -August- University Göttingen, the first institute in Germany, where all areas of the insurance industry have been taught: actuarial, insurance law and insurance industry. Kiepert wrote in addition to a variety of professional publications and numerous textbooks on differential calculus and integral calculus, which have been used for decades at universities. In Hanover, he remained until his retirement (1921 ), but continued to work for the science. Associated with his name remain designations such as " kiepertsche parable " or the kiepertsche hyperbola, which he had already discovered in his Berlin period of study.

Kiepert was retired in April 1, 1921 but stopped after a few lectures. He died in 1934 in his 88th year.

Awards and Affiliations

Writings

• Table of the most important formulas of the differential calculation, numerous editions
• Floor plan of the differential and integral calculation, Helwing, Hanover, 2 volumes, numerous editions
• Floor plan of the integral calculation, 2 volumes, numerous editions
• Floor plan of the differential calculation, numerous editions