Enno Dirksen
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| Doctoral advisor | Johann Tobias Mayer Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut |
| Doctoral students | Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Adolph Göpel Eduard Heine |
Enno Dirksen (3 January 1788 – 16 July 1850) was a German mathematician at the
University of Berlin.[1]
Early life
Enno Dirksen was born on 3 January 1788 in
Career
On the suggestion of
Göttingen University in 1817 to study mathematics. He pursued his doctorate there advised by Johann Tobias Mayer and Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut
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He went to Berlin in 1820 and started working for the astronomer
University of Berlin's mathematics department as an expert in astronomy. In August 1820, he was appointed by the Prussian Ministry as an extraordinary professor in the university. Four years later, in June 1824, he was appointed as a full Professor of Mathematics. The noted mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was one of the students he advised.[2]
He was an elected member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences from 1825.[3]
He retired from teaching in 1848–49 due to illness, and moved to Paris. He died there on 16 July 1850.
References
- ^ Cantor, Moritz (1877), "Enno Dirksen", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 5, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 252–253
- ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Enno Dirksen", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ "Mitglieder der Berliner Akademien – alphabetisch — Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften" (in German). Prussian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
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