Otto Stolz

Otto Stolz ( born July 3, 1842 in Hall in Tirol, † November 23, 1905 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian mathematician.

Education and work

Otto Stolz spent his youth in Hall in Tirol and visited there for three years, the Franciscan school. The philologist Friedrich pride was his younger brother. He then moved to the Imperial and Royal upper secondary school in Innsbruck, where he completed his schooling with distinction. In 1860, he began the study of natural sciences at the University of Innsbruck, where he immersed himself from the outset in mathematics. In 1860 he became a member of the Corps Rhaetia. In 1863 he continued his studies at the University of Vienna, where he habilitated in four years later. In 1869 he went to Berlin and studied with the mathematicians Karl Weierstrass, Ernst Eduard Kummer and Leopold Kronecker. He was mainly influenced by the ideas of Weierstrass '. The summer semester 1871 he spent in Göttingen, where he heard the lectures of Alfred Clebsch and Felix Klein.

In 1872 he began his teaching career as a professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck. In the academic years 1877/78 and 1888/89 he held the post of Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and 1890 /91 Rector. He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and he received a number of awards for his scientific work. Shortly after the completion of his work, "Introduction to the Theory of Functions" Otto died pride on November 23, 1905 in Innsbruck. His son of the same Otto Stolz was a famous Tyrolean folklorist and historian.

Work

Otto Stolz addresses specifically the algebraic geometry and analysis. According to him, the " set of pride " about the existence of the limit is designated by the quotient of two sequences. He wrote introductory works on arithmetic, function theory and differential and integral calculus.

Pride also dealt with the history of mathematics. In particular, he took Bernhard Bolzano's contributions to the foundations of analysis back from oblivion (1881 ).

Writings

  • Lectures on general arithmetic. Leipzig 1885/1886.
  • Principles of differential and integral calculus. Leipzig 1893/1896.
  • YES Gmeiner: Introduction to complex analysis. Leipzig 1905.
  • B. Bolzano's importance in the history of calculus. In: Mathematische Annalen. Volume 18, 1881.
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