Max Simon (mathematician)

Max Simon
From a photo album of the Mathematische Gesellschaft (Hamburg)
Born(1844-06-08)8 June 1844
Kołobrzeg
Died15 January 1918(1918-01-15) (aged 73)
Strasbourg
Alma materFriedrich Wilhelm University
Scientific career
ThesisDe relationibus inter constantes duarum linearum secundi ordinis, ut sit polygonum alteri inscriptum circumscriptum alteri (1867)
Academic advisorsKarl Weierstrass, Ernst Eduard Kummer
Gravestone of Max Simon

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 antiquity.

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.

  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