Biography:Arthur Hirsch
Arthur Hirsch | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | July 19, 1866 |
| Died | November 18, 1948 (aged 82) |
| Alma mater | University of Königsberg |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich |
| Thesis | Zur Theorie der linearen Differentialgleichung mit rationalem Integral (1892) |
| Doctoral students | Émile Marchand, Rudolf Hiltbrunner, Adolphe Loeffler, Charles Vuille, Ernst Wanner |
Arthur Hirsch (1866–1948) was a German mathematician.
Life and work
Hirsch completed his schooling in Königsberg in 1882 and then studied mathematics and physics in the universities of Berlin and Königsberg. Among his teachers at Königsberg were David Hilbert and Adolf Hurwitz.[1] In 1892 he received a doctorate from Königsberg for a thesis about linear differential equations.[2]
The following year, he took his docent habilitation at Polytechnikum of Zurich, where he was, successively, assistant professor from 1893, titular professor from 1897 and ordinary professor from 1903[3] until his retirement in 1936.
The work of Hirsch is primarily on differential equations and hypergeometric functions. He published seven papers about it in Mathematische Annalen. Hirsch was a member of the Swiss Mathematical Society from his foundation in 1910.[4]
References
- ↑ Eminger 2015, pp. 113–114.
- ↑ Frei & Stammbach 1992, p. 4.
- ↑ Eminger 2015, p. 114.
- ↑ Eminger 2015, p. 115.
Bibliography
- Eminger, Stefanie (2012). "Viribus unitis! shall be our watchword: the first International Congress of Mathematicians, held 9–11 August 1897 in Zurich". BSHM Bulletin 27 (3): 155–168. doi:10.1080/17498430.2012.687496. ISSN 1749-8430.
- Eminger, Stefanie Ursula (2015). Carl Friedrich Geiser and Ferdinand Rudio: The Men Behind the First International Congress of Mathematicians. St Andrews University. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Publications/Eminger.pdf.
- Frei, Günther; Stammbach, Urs (1992) (in German). Hermann Weyl und die Mathematik an der ETH Zürich, 1913–1930. Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-3-0348-9700-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=ieskBgAAQBAJ.
- Frei, Günther; Stammbach, Urs (1994) (in German). Die Mathematiker an den Zürcher Hochschulen. Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-3-7643-5078-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=f4n0BQAAQBAJ.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Arthur Hirsch", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hirsch_Arthur.html.
- "Arthur Hirsch (1866–1948)". ETH Zürich Bibliothek. http://www.library.ethz.ch/de/Ressourcen/Digitale-Bibliothek/Kurzportraets/Arthur-Hirsch-1866-1948.,
 |
