Georg Scheffers
Georg Wilhelm Scheffers ( born November 21, 1866 in Altendorf in wood Minden; † August 12, 1945 in Berlin) was a German mathematician who mainly focused on differential geometry.
Scheffers studied from 1884 at the University of Leipzig in Sophus Lie and Felix Klein. In 1890 he received his doctorate ( " determination of a class of contact transformation groups of the three -fold extended space" ) there with Lie. From 1896 he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he became professor in 1900. 1907 until his retirement in 1935 he was a professor at the Technical University Berlin -Charlottenburg. From 1911 to 1912 he was rector of the university.
Scheffers worked stimulated by Lie on the geometry of contact transformations ( about which he wrote a book with Lie) and translation surfaces ( " The Abelian and the Lie theorem on translation surfaces ", Acta Mathematica 1904). He also published lectures of Lie ( on Lie groups ).
Scheffers is author of a number of popular textbooks at the time ( he was also the Analysis textbook by Joseph Serret in German translation out ) and some popular science books.
Writings
- Textbook of mathematics - to self-instruction and for students of science and technology. An introduction to differential and integral calculus and analytic geometry, 14th edition, Berlin, De Gruyter 1958
- How to find and draw graticules of Agriculture and star charts? , Teubner 1934
- All sorts from the drawing geometry, source and Meyer 1930
- Application of differential and integral calculus to geometry
- Textbook of Descriptive Geometry, Springer 1919
- With Lie: Geometry of contact transformations, Vol.1, Teubner 1896
- "Special transcendental curves ", Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences 1903
- Literature by and about Georg Scheffers in the catalog that German national library