Max Simon (mathematician)
Maximilian Simon (born 8 June 1844 in Kołobrzeg; died 15 January 1918 in Strasbourg) was a German historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher. He was concerned mostly with mathematics in the antiquity.
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From a photo album of the Mathematische Gesellschaft (Hamburg) | |
| Born | 8 June 1844 |
| Died | 15 January 1918 (aged 73) |
| Alma mater | Friedrich Wilhelm University |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | De relationibus inter constantes duarum linearum secundi ordinis, ut sit polygonum alteri inscriptum circumscriptum alteri (1867) |
| Academic advisors | Karl Weierstrass, Ernst Eduard Kummer |
Born into a Jewish family, he studied from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. from Karl Weierstrass und Ernst Eduard Kummer He was a mathematics teacher in Berlin from 1868 to 1871, and in Strasbourg from 1871 to 1912, where he became an honorary professor of the university.
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