Reinhold Hoppe
Ernst Reinhold Eduard Hoppe (November 18, 1816 – May 7, 1900) was a German mathematician who worked as a professor at the
Education and career
Hoppe was a student of Johann August Grunert at the University of Greifswald,[3] graduating in 1842 and becoming an English and mathematics teacher. He completed his doctorate in 1850 in Halle and his habilitation in mathematics in 1853 in Berlin under Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. He also tried to obtain a habilitation in philosophy at the same time, but was denied until a later re-application in 1871. He worked at Berlin as a privatdozent, and then after 1870 as a professor, but with few students and little remuneration.[2]
When Grunert died in 1872, Hoppe took over the editorship of the mathematical journal founded by Grunert, the Archiv der Mathematik und Physik. Hoppe in turn continued as editor until his own death, in 1900.[3] In 1890, Hoppe was one of the 31 founding members of the German Mathematical Society.[4]
Contributions
Hoppe wrote over 250 scientific publications, including one of the first textbooks on differential geometry.[2]
His accomplishments in geometry include rediscovering the higher-dimensional regular polytopes (previously discovered by Ludwig Schläfli),[5]
and coining the term "polytope".
Hoppe published several works on a formula for the m-fold
In his work on special functions, Hoppe belonged to the Königsburg school of thought, led by Carl Jacobi.[10] He also published research in fluid mechanics.[11]
Awards and honors
He was elected to the
Books
- Theorie Der Independenten Darstellung Der Höhern Differentialquotienten (Leipzig: Joh. Ambr. Barth, 1845)
- Zulänglichkeit Des Empirismus In Der Philosophie (Berlin: Wilhelm Thome, 1852)
- Lehrbuch Der Differentialrechnung Und Reihentheorie Mit Strenger Begründung (Berlin: G. F. Otto Müller, 1865)
- Principien Der Flächentheorie (Leipzig: C. A. Koch, 1876)
- Tafeln Zur Dreissigstelligen Logarithmischen Rechnung (Leipzig: C. A. Koch, 1876)
- Lehrbuch Der Analytischen Geometrie (Leipzig: C. A. Koch, 1880)
References
- ^ a b Kieser, Dietrich Georg; Carus, Carl Gustav; Behn, Wilhelm Friedrich Georg; Knoblauch, Carl Hermann; Wangerin, Albert (1900), Leopoldina (in German), vol. 36, Halle, p. 132
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). - ^ a b c Biermann, Kurt R. (1972), "Reinhold Hoppe", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 614–615; (full text online)
- ^ MR 1770139. See in particular pp. 435–437.
- ^ Zielsetzung, German Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-08-19.
- ISBN 9783034891738.
- ISBN 0-486-61480-8.
- ^ Gould, H. W. (February 1973), "A triangle with integral sides and area" (PDF), Fibonacci Quarterly, 11 (1): 27–39.
- MR 2405694.
- MR 1903577.
- ISBN 9783034804318.
- .