Heinrich Emil Timerding

{{Short description|German mathematician}} [[File:HeinrichTimerdingPortrait.jpg|thumb]] '''Heinrich Carl Franz Emil Timerding''' (23 January 1873 in [[Strasbourg]]<ref name="Rehbock.1943">{{cite journal | author=Fritz Rehbock | title=Heinrich Timerding | journal=[[Deutsche Mathematik]] | volume=7 | number=2/3 | pages=252–254 | date=Jul 1943 }} (On the occasion of his 70th birthday)</ref> – 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 [[War Merit Cross (Brunswick)|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]].<ref name="Rehbock.1943"/>

In 1900 he attended [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] the [[American Mathematical Society]]'s summer meeting, where he read a paper.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Some remarks on tetrahedral geometry|author=Timerding, H. E.|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|volume=6|year=1900|issue=10|pages=417–430|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1900-00730-0|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Main publications== * [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100398543 ''Über die Kugeln, welche eine cubische Raumcurve mehrfach oder mehrpunktig berühren.''] R. Schultz & co, Strassburg 1894 * ''[https://archive.org/details/geometriederkrf00timegoog Geometrie der Kräfte]'', Teubner, Leipzig 1908 * [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000164732 ''Die Erziehung der Anschauung''], Teubner, Leipzig, 1912 * ''Handbuch der angewandten Mathematik Vol. 1. Praktische Analysis. Vol. 2. Darstellende Geometrie.'', Teubner 1914 * [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000357760 ''Analyse des Zufalls''], 1915 * ''Der goldene Schnitt'', 1919 * '' Robert Mayer und die Entdeckung des Energiegesetzes'', 1925.

==References== * ''One Hundred Years of l’Enseignement Mathematique'', Moments of Mathematics Education in the Twentieth Century, Geneva 2003 [http://www.unige.ch/math/EnsMath/EM-ICMI/ACTGE.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051726/http://www.unige.ch/math/EnsMath/EM-ICMI/ACTGE.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }} * 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}})

==External links== * {{Gutenberg author | id=38207| name=Heinrich Emil Timerding}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Heinrich Emil Timerding}}

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