Ernst Christian Julius Schering
Ernst Christian Julius Schering | |
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Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | |
Known for | editing C.F. Gauss's works, arc measurement |
Spouse | Maria Heliodora Malmstén |
Children | Harald Schering |
Scientific career | |
Fields | mathematics, theoretical physics |
Thesis | Zur mathematischen Theorie elektrischer Ströme (1857) |
Doctoral students | Carl Johannes Thomae, Gottlob Frege, Karl Heun, Robert Haussner, August Tafelmacher |
Ernst Christian Julius Schering (13 July 1833 – 2 November 1897) was a German mathematician.
Early life and career
Born in 1833 near
At the University of Göttingen
Following a fondness of mathematics and physics, in 1852, at the age of 19, he moved on to study in
After turning down a call to
During the 1860s he was appointed by the hanoverian government as a member of a commission for the European arc measurement. In 1868, management of the Göttingen Observatory was divided into two divisions, one for practical astronomy and one for theoretical astronomy, geodesy and mathematical physics, of which Schering took over the former division from Wilhelm Klinkerfues and was appointed full professor. Among other observations, he was particularly busy with magnetic observations in connection with the polar expeditions in 1882/1883.
Family
His younger brother Karl Schering also studied physics and mathematics in Göttingen. He later became professor of mathematics at the University of Strasbourg and subsequently professor of physics at the
Selected publications
- Schering, Ernst (1857), Zur mathematischen Theorie electrischer Ströme: Beweis der allgemeinen Lehrsätze der Electrodynamik insbesondere der Inductionslehre aus dem electrischen Grundgesetze (Dissertation), Göttingen: Kästner
- Schering, Ernst (1858), "Zur mathematischen Theorie elektrischer Ströme", Annalen der Physik, 180 (6): 266–279,
- Schering, Ernst (1858), Ueber die conforme Abbildung des Ellipsoids auf der Ebene: Eine von der philosophischen Facultät der Georgia Augusta am 4. Juni 1858 gekrönte Preisschrift (Habilitation), Göttingen: Dieterich
- Schering, Ernst (1873), "Hamilton-Jacobische Theorie für Kräfte, deren Maass von der Bewegung der Körper abhängt", Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und der Georg-Augusts-Universität zu Göttingen, 26: 744–753
- Schering, Ernst (1874), Verallgemeinerung der Poisson-Jacobischen Störungsformeln, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Göttingen: Dieterich
- Schering, Ernst (1877), Carl Friedrich Gauss' Geburtstag nach hundertjähriger Wiederkehr, Göttingen: Dieterich
- Schering, Ernst (1884), "Zur Lösung der Keppler'schen Gleichung", Astronomische Nachrichten, 109 (13): 193–200,
- Haussner, Robert; Schering, Karl, eds. (1902), Gesammelte mathematische Werke von Ernst Schering, Berlin: Mayer & Müller
Further reading
- H., W.; doi:10.1038/057416a0
- Schur, W. (1898), "Ernst Christian Julius Schering", in Lehmann-Filhes, R.; Müller, G. (eds.), Vierteljahresschrift der Astronomischen Gesellschaft (in German), vol. 33, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pp. 2–5
- Patterson, S. J. (2001), "Ernst Schering", in Arndt, K.; Gottschalk, G.; Smend, R. (eds.), Göttinger Gelehrte: Die Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen in Bildnissen und Würdigungen 1751-2001 (in German), vol. 1, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, p. 191
- Fritsch, Rudolf; Schmeidler, Felix (2005), "Schering, Ernst", Neue Deutsche Biografie (in German), vol. 22, pp. 695–696