Biography:Georg Joseph Sidler
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Georg Joseph Sidler | |
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| Born | August 31, 1831 |
| Died | November 9, 1907 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | University of Zurich |
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| Fields | Mathematics Astronomy |
| Institutions | University of Bern |
| Thesis | Sur les inégalités du moyen mouvement d'Uranus dues a l'action perturbatrice de Neptune (1855) |
| Doctoral advisor | Inspired by Victor Puiseux |
Georg Joseph Sidler (1831–1907) was a Swiss mathematician, professor at the university of Bern.
Life and work
Slider was awarded with a doctorate at the University of Zurich in 1854 with a thesis on astronomy inspired by Victor Puiseux. The following years he completed studies at the Universities of Zurich and Berlin. In 1857 he was appointed Assistant Professor of University of Bern and in 1880 he became full professor. He retired in 1898. [1]
His most important works were about spherical harmonic functions and on perturbation theory. In 1861 he published his main book in Bern: Die Theorie der Kugelfunktionen.
References
- ↑ Frei & Stammbach, pages 11-12.
Bibliography
- Hentschel, Ann M. (2005). "Peripatetic Highlights in Bern" (in en). Physics in Perspective 7 (1): 107-129. doi:10.1007/s00016-004-0232-0. ISSN 1422-6944. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00016-004-0232-0.
- Frei, Günther; Stammbach, Urs (1994) (in de). Die Mathematiker an den Zürcher Hochschulen. Springer. ISBN 978-3-7643-5078-9. https://books.google.cat/books?id=f4n0BQAAQBAJ.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Georg Joseph Sidler", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sidler.html.
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