Heinrich Burkhardt

Heinrich Burkhardt
Heinrich Burkhardt
Born(1861-10-15)15 October 1861
Schweinfurt, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died2 November 1914(1914-11-02) (aged 53)
Munich, German Empire
NationalityGerman
Alma materTechnical University of Munich (1879–81)
University of Berlin (1881–82)
University of Munich (1882–83, 1885–86)
University of Göttingen (1883–84)
Known forBurkhardt quartic
Burkhardt group
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorGustav Conrad Bauer

Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt (15 October 1861 – 2 November 1914) was a German mathematician. He famously was one of the two examiners of Albert Einstein's PhD thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen.[1] Of Einstein's thesis he stated: "The mode of treatment demonstrates fundamental mastery of the relevant mathematical methods" and "What I checked, I found to be correct without exception."[2]

  1. ^ Einstein, Albert (1905). Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen (PDF) (Thesis). Bern: Wyss. doi:10.3929/ethz-a-000565688. hdl:20.500.11850/139872. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2024-04-29; Dissertation Univ. Zürich, Referee: A. Kleiner, Co-referee: H. Burkhardt{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. ^ Expert Opinion by Alfred Kleiner and Heinrich Burkhardt on Einstein's Dissertation (Zurich, 22-23 July 1905), collected in Volume 5: The Swiss Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914 (English translation supplement) Page 22. Archived 2023-10-02 at the Wayback Machine