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Heinrich Emil Timerding

Heinrich Emil Timerding

German mathematician

Heinrich Carl Franz Emil Timerding (23 January 1873 in Strasbourg[1] – 30 April 1945 in Braunschweig) was a German mathematician, professor at the Braunschweig University of Technology, mainly known for his contributions to probability theory. He was awarded the Brunswick and the Prussian War Merit Cross, the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross) of the Order of Henry the Lion, and in 1938 the Nazi Civil Service Faithful Service Medal.[1]

In 1900 he attended Columbia University in New York City the American Mathematical Society's summer meeting, where he read a paper.[2]

Main publications

References

  • One Hundred Years of l’Enseignement Mathematique, Moments of Mathematics Education in the Twentieth Century, Geneva 2003
  • Walter Kertz, Technische Universität Braunschweig vom Collegium Carolinum zur Technischen Universität 1745 – 1995, Hildesheim 1995
  • Wolfgang Schneider, Die Technische Hochschule Braunschweig; Länderdienst, Verlag Berlin-West, Basel 1963
  • Anders Hald, A history of mathematical statistics from 1750 to 1930, 1998 (ISBN 0471179124)
  1. [1]
    Fritz Rehbock (Jul 1943). "Heinrich Timerding". Deutsche Mathematik. 7 (2/3): 252–254. (On the occasion of his 70th birthday)
  2. [2]
    Timerding, H. E. (1900). "Some remarks on tetrahedral geometry". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 (10): 417–430. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1900-00730-0.


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