Heinrich Burkhardt
Heinrich Burkhardt | |
|---|---|
 Heinrich Burkhardt | |
| Born | 15 October 1861 |
| Died | 2 November 1914 (aged 53) |
| Alma mater | Technische Hochschule München (1879–81) Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin (1881–82) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1882–83, 1885–86) University of Göttingen (1883–84) |
| Known for | Burkhardt quartic Burkhardt group |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Gustav Conrad Bauer | |
Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt (15 October 1861 – 2 November 1914) was a German mathematician. He famously was one of the two examiners of Albert Einstein's PhD thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen.[1] Of Einstein's thesis he stated: "The mode of treatment demonstrates fundamental mastery of the relevant mathematical methods" and "What I checked, I found to be correct without exception."[2]
Biography
Burkhardt was born in Schweinfurt. Starting from 1879 he studied under Karl Weierstrass, Alexander von Brill, and Hermann Amandus Schwarz at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, at the Technische Hochschule München, at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, and at the University of Göttingen. He attained a doctorate in 1886 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under Gustav Conrad Bauer with a thesis entitled: Beziehungen zwischen der Invariantentheorie und der Theorie algebraischer Integrale und ihrer Umkehrungen (Relations between the invariant theory and the theory of algebraic integrals and their inverses).
In 1887, he was an assistant at the University of Göttingen and obtained his habilitation there in 1889. Later, he was a professor at the University of Zurich from 1897 to 1908 and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from October 1908. He worked on the theory of the elliptical functions, series expansions, group theory, the Burkhardt quartic, and history of mathematics.
He died in Neuwittelsbach/München, of a disease of the stomach, diagnosed around Easter 1914.
Works
- 1899: Elliptische Funktionen, zweiter Tiel, from Internet Archive
- 1903: Algebraische Analysis, from Internet Archive
- 1908: Entwicklungen nach oscillierenden Funktionen und Integration der Differentialgleichungen der mathematischen physick
- 1913: Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, translated by S.E. Rasor, link from Internet Archive
See also
References
- ↑ Einstein, Albert (1905). Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen (PDF) (Thesis). Bern: Wyss. doi:10.3929/ethz-a-000565688. hdl:20.500.11850/139872. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2024-04-29; Dissertation Univ. Zürich, Referee: A. Kleiner, Co-referee: H. Burkhardt
{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ↑ Expert Opinion by Alfred Kleiner and Heinrich Burkhardt on Einstein's Dissertation (Zurich, 22-23 July 1905), collected in Volume 5: The Swiss Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914 (English translation supplement) Page 22. Archived 2023-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Works by or about Heinrich Burkhardt at the Internet Archive
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- "Heinrich Burkhardt" in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- Heinrich Burkhardt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Einstein's dissertation
- Heinrich Liebmann „Zur Erinnerung an Heinrich Burkhardt“, Jahresbericht DMV Bd.24, 1915, S.185-195