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 antiquity.

Born into a Jewish family, he studied from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. from Karl Weierstrass und Ernst Eduard Kummer 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 ( ed.), Teubner 1925
• Analytische Geometrie der Ebene, 3rd edition, 1900
• Analytische Geometrie des Raumes, 2 volumes, Sammlung Göschen 1900, 1901

References

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