Karl Bopp

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Karl Bopp

Born 28 March 1877

Rastatt

Died 5 December 1934(aged 57)

Heidelberg

Nationality German

Alma mater University of Heidelberg

Scientific career

Fields Mathematics

Institutions University of Heidelberg

Doctoral advisor Moritz Cantor

Leo Knigsberger

Doctoral students Erwin Christmann

Grete Leibowitz

Karl Bopp (28 March 1877 5 December 1934) was a German historian of mathematics.

Biography[edit]
Bopp studied at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Heidelberg under Moritz
Cantor. In 1906 he habilitatedwith a work about the conic sections of Gregorius a Sancto
Vincenti, and in 1915 he became professor extraordinarius in Heidelberg. As successor of
Moritz Cantor he taught history of mathematics, political arithmetic, and Insurance. In 1933
he became ill and died in 1934.
Bopp's special field of interest were researches about Johann Heinrich Lambert. He edited
Lambert's Monatsbuch, his letter exchanges with Leonhard Euler and Abraham Gotthelf
Kstner, and his philosophical writings. Bopp wrote many historical papers, including two
studies on the history of elliptic functions, and the re-publication of a paper by Nicolas Fatio
de Duillieron the cause of gravitation. Under his supervision many dissertations were
written by his students.[1]
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