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.

Max Simon
From a photo album of the Mathematische Gesellschaft (Hamburg)
Born	8 June 1844 Kołobrzeg
Died	15 January 1918 (aged 73) Strasbourg
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,[1] he studied from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. from Karl Weierstrass und Ernst Eduard Kummer[2][3] 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.

Works

• Euclid und die sechs planimetrischen Bücher, Teubner 1901
• Über die Entwicklung der Elementargeometrie im 19 Jahrhundert, Bericht der Deutschen Mathematikervereinigung, Teubner 1906
• Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte, Berlin: B. Cassirer 1909
• Nichteuklidische Geometrie in elementarer Behandlung (Kuno Fladt ed.), Teubner 1925
• Analytische Geometrie der Ebene, 3rd edition, Sammlung Göschen 1900
• Analytische Geometrie des Raumes, 2 volumes, Sammlung Göschen 1900, 1901

References

1. Birgit Bergmann, Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture, Springer (2012), p. 155
2. Reinhard Bölling, ed. (1994). A Photo Album for Weierstrass. Vieweg+Teubner. ISBN 978-3-528-06602-4., p. 49 — backmatter (p.24ff) at springer.com
3. Max Simon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

• Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development. Birkhäuser, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0, (Science networks 27), p. 522.