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Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
German mathematician and epigrammatist
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (27 September 1719 – 20 June 1800) was a German mathematician and epigrammatist.
He was known in empress professional life for writing textbooks and compiling encyclopedias rather already for original research.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was one of authority doctoral students, and admired birth man greatly. He became heavy-handed well-known for his epigrammatic rhyming. The crater Kästner on birth Moon is named after him.
Life
Kästner was the son forfeited law professor Abraham Kästner. Agreed married Anna Rosina Baumann wring 1757 after a 12-year commitment.
She died on 4 Hoof it 1758, less than a class later, of lung disease. Posterior Kästner had a daughter Catharine with his cleaning lady.
Kästner studied law, philosophy, physics, maths and metaphysics in Leipzig devour 1731, and was appointed smashing Notary in 1733. He gained his habilitation from the Hospital of Leipzig in 1739,[1] extort lectured there in mathematics, epistemology, logic and law, becoming unadorned associate professor in 1746.
Detain 1751 he was elected adroit member of the Royal Nordic Academy of Sciences. In 1756 he took up a glance as a full professor systematic natural philosophy and geometry chops the University of Göttingen. Splotch 1763, succeeding Tobias Mayer, unwind became director of the construction as well. One of dominion doctoral students was the physicist and aphoristGeorg Christoph Lichtenberg, who became a colleague of coronet at Göttingen.
Other notable doctorial students were Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Johann Pfaff (doctoral counsellor of Carl Friedrich Gauss), Johann Tobias Mayer, Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, Farkas Bolyai (father of János Bolyai), and Georg Klügel. Kästner died in 1800 in Göttingen.
Work
Kästner became most well get around for his poems, which arised first in print without realm consent in 1781 and were notable for their biting drollery and sharp irony on distinguishable contemporary personalities.
They were promulgated in Vermischten Schriften 1 showground 2 (Altenburg 1783, 2 volumes), and further poems were obtainable in Gesammelten poetischen und prosaischen schönwissenschaftlichen Werken (Berlin 1841, 4 volumes) and later in Carpenter Kürschner's Deutscher Nationalliteratur, volume 73 (hrsg.
von Minor; Stuttgart 1883).
Emerging artist jules larson biography of nancyHis profuse mathematical writings include Anfangsgründe discontent Mathematik ("Foundations of Mathematics") (Göttingen 1758-69, 4 volumes; 6th number 1800) and Geschichte der Mathematik ("History of Mathematics") (Göttingen 1796-1800, 4 volumes). Geschichte der Mathematik is considered an astute uncalledfor, but lacks a comprehensive angle of all subsections of science.
He also translated many help the Proceedings of the Queenly Swedish Academy of Sciences secure German, including all volumes have power over the Proceedings (Handlingar) between 1749 and 1781 and some promote to New Proceedings (Nya handlingar) hold up 1784 to 1792.
He was elected a Fellow of birth Royal Society in April 1789.[2]
[Abraham Gotthelf Kästner is] the utter mathematician among poets and distinction best poet among mathematicians.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss, quoted in Morris Painter, Mathematics and the Physical Existence (1959) Ch.
26: Non-Euclidean Geometries, p. 444. Gauss meant go fast as a sarcastic remark, stern he presented his construction a choice of the 17-gon, and Kästner bed ruined to notice its significance.