Who linked Hegel's philosophy with the history of mathematics? Hint: he also gave the Steiner surface its name

DOI10.1007/S00283-013-9409-1MaRDI QIDQ393486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David E. Rowe

Publication date 23 January 2014

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9409-1

zbMATH Keywords

Ernst Eduard KummerGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelJakob SteinerKarl WeierstrassRoman surfaceSteiner surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of algebraic geometry (14-03) History of geometry (51-03)

Review text

The mathematician in question is Ernst Eduard Kummer. As its title indicates, this article focuses on a couple of non-number-theoretic aspects of Kummer's life and work: his philosophical and political outlook, and the somewhat convoluted history (also involving Weierstrass) of the Steiner Roman surface.

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