Ludwig Adolf Sohncke
Ludwig Adolf[a] Sohncke (20 Juni 1807 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), Kingdom of Prussia – 16 January 1853 in Halle) was a German mathematician. He was father of the mathematician Leonhard Sohncke.
Life and work[edit]
Ludwig Adolf Sohncke studied at the Albertina University in his native town Königsberg, was doctoral student of Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.[1] There he began his scientific career as private lecturer in 1833. Together with Jacobi and Franz Ernst Neumann, he was co-founder and co-director of the Königsberg Seminar of Physics that aimed to install a more intensive and effective model for teaching Physics and mathematics.[2] In this institution, Otto Hesse and Theodor Schönemann belonged to his students.[3] In 1835, he moved to the University of Halle as extraordinary professor of mathematics, where he advanced to ordinary professor in 1839. His main field of work were the elliptic functions, where he made discoveries over the complex multiplication. He translated the History of Geometry by Michel Chasles (1837) into the German language,[4] and edited some of his analytic lectures.
Writings[edit]
- "Motus corporum coelestium in medio resistante", Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (in Latin), 10: 23–40, 1833
- "Aequationes modulares pro transformatione functionum ellipticarum undecimi et decimi tertii et decimi septimi ordinis", Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (in Latin), 12: 178, 1834
- "Aequationes modulares pro transformatione Functionum Ellipticarum", Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (in Latin), 16: 97–130, 1837, doi:10.1515/crll.1837.16.97 (wrong spelling as "Sohnke")
- Analytische Geometrie (in German), Halle: H. W. Schmidt, 1851
- Analytische Theorie der Statik (in German), Halle: H. W. Schmidt, 1853
- Sohncke, L. A., ed. (1854), Verzeichniss der Bücher über die gesammten Zweige der Mathematik, welche in Deutschland und dem Auslande vom Jahre 1830 bis Mitte 1854 erschienen sind (in German)
Notes[edit]
- ^ also written "Adolph"
References[edit]
Sources[edit]
- Poggendorff, J. C., ed. (1863). Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften. Zweiter Teil M–Z (in German). Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. p. 954.
- Moritz Cantor (1892), "Sohncke, Ludwig Adolf", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 34, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 168–169
- Olesko, Kathryn M. (1991), Physics as a Calling. Discipline and practice in the Königsberg Seminar for Physics, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, ISBN 0-8014-2248-5