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Olaus Henrici
Olaus Henrici (year unknown)Born 9 March 1840
Meldorf, Duchy of HolsteinDied 10 August 1918 (aged 78)
Chandler's Ford, EnglandResidence United Kingdom Nationality Germany Institutions University College London, Central Technical College Alma mater Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg Doctoral advisor Otto Hesse Other academic advisors Karl Weierstrass, Leopold Kronecker Notable students Raphael Weldon Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, FRS (9 March 1840, Meldorf, Duchy of Holstein – 10 August 1918, Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, England) was a German mathematician.
Henrici attained his Dr. phil. degree on 6 June 1863 at University of Heidelberg. He was from 1865 to 1866 docent of mathematics and physics at the University of Kiel. On 4 June 1870 he became a professor of mathematics at University College London (UCL) and in March 1884 at the Royal College of Science in London. Henrici was from 1882 to 1884 the president of the London Mathematical Society.
Works
- Skeleton of structures: especially in their application to the building of steel and iron bridges. New York: Van Nostrand, 1867.
- Congruent figures, 1878.
- Elementary geometry. London: Longmans, Green, 1879.
- Vectors and rotors, 1903.
Bibliography
- Hall, A. Rupert (1982). Science for industry: a short history of the Imperial College of Science and Technology and its antecedents. Imperial College. ISBN 9780852871430. http://books.google.dk/books?id=-TrbAAAAMAAJ.
- Hill, M. J. M. (1918). "Professor Olaus Henrici". Proc. London Math. Soc. 17 (1): xlii–xlix. doi:10.1112/plms/s2-17.1.1-u. http://plms.oxfordjournals.org/content/s2-17/1/1.3.extract.
External links
- Works written by or about Olaus Magnus Friedrich Henrici at Wikisource
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Olaus Henrici", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Henrici.html.
- Olaus Henrici at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Categories:- German mathematicians
- 19th-century mathematicians
- 20th-century mathematicians
- Geometry educators
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- University of Kiel faculty
- Academics of Bedford College (London)
- Academics of University College London
- Academics of Imperial College London
- University of Heidelberg alumni
- People from Meldorf
- 1840 births
- 1918 deaths
- Mathematician stubs
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