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Cantor, Moritz (1829 - 1920)

 
Professor of History of Mathematics in Germany

Cantor is known for his lectures on the history of mathematics. His history contains many errors, partly corrected by Gustaf Eneström, a sharp critic of Cantor. Nevertheless, Cantors work is still regarded as one of the basic (and most comprehensive) projects to the history of mathematics.
One criticism of Cantor's work was his view that the Indo-Arabic decimal system already was from the Pythagoreans, to which it served the so-called geometry II, which was attributed to Boethius as evidence - he held this compilation of 11 Century still for an original work of Boethius. He also dealt in other articles with the tradition of the Hindu-Arabic arithmetic in the West and studied the tradition of the practical aspects of the geometry from antiquity to the Middle Ages (The Roman agrimensores).
   
variant spelling:
Cantor, Moritz
   
Curriculum vitae  
* 23.08.1829 Mannheim born
1848 - 1851 Heidelberg studied mathematics
1851 - 1852 Göttingen studied mathematics by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Wilhelm Weber and Moritz Stern
06.05.1851 Doctorate "Ein wenig gebräuchliches Coordinatensystem"
1852 Berlin studied mathematics by Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Jakob Steiner
1853 Heidelberg private lecturer
1853 Heidelberg Habilitation "Grundzüge einer Elementar-Arithmetik"
1860 - ? Heidelberg taught the history of mathematics
1863 Heidelberg adjunct professor
1875 - 1913 Heidelberg honorary professor
1913 retirement
† 10.04.1920 Heidelberg died
Collections
Industrialisation, ca. 1850-1920
Literature
 
no fulltext found Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik
Author: Cantor, Moritz (Ed.); Cantor, Moritz
Published: 1880 -
no fulltext found Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik: Von den ältesten Zeiten bis zum J. 1200 n. Chr. ; mit 114 Figuren im Text und einer lithogr. Tafel
Author: Cantor, Moritz
Published: 1894
no fulltext found Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik: Von 1200 - 1668
Author: Cantor, Moritz
Published: 1892
no fulltext found Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik: Von 1668 - 1758
Author: Cantor, Moritz
Published: 1898
no fulltext found Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik: Von 1759 - 1799
Author: Cantor, Moritz (Ed.)
Published: 1924
 
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