Andreas Speiser | |
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| Born | (1885-06-10)June 10, 1885 |
| Died | October 12, 1970(1970-10-12) (aged 85) |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Zurich |
| Doctoral advisor | David Hilbert |
| Doctoral students | Johann Jakob Burckhardt |
Andreas Speiser (June 10, 1885 – October 12, 1970) was aSwissmathematician andphilosopher of science.
Speiser studied inGöttingen, starting in 1904, notably withDavid Hilbert,Felix Klein,Hermann Minkowski. In 1917 he became full-time professor at theUniversity of Zurich but later relocated in Basel. During 1924/25 he was president of the Swiss Mathematical Association.
Speiser worked on number theory, group theory, and the theory ofRiemann surfaces. He organized the translation ofLeonard Dickson's seminal 1923 bookAlgebras and Their Arithmetics (Algebren und ihre Zahlentheorie, 1927), which was heavily influenced by the work on the theory of algebras done by the schools ofEmmy Noether andHelmut Hasse. Speiser also added an appendix on ideal theory to Dickson's book. Speiser's bookTheorie der Gruppen endlicher Ordnung is a classic, richly illustrated work on group theory. In this book, there are group theoretical applications in Galois theory, elementary number theory, and Platonic solids, as well as extensive studies of ornaments, such as those that Speiser studied on a 1928 trip to Egypt.
Speiser also worked on the history of mathematics and was the chief editor for theEuler Commission's edition ofLeonhard Euler'sOpera Omnia[1] and the editor of the works ofJohann Heinrich Lambert. As a philosopher Speiser was chiefly concerned withPlato and wrote a commentary on theParmenides Dialogue, but he was also an expert of the philosophies ofPlotinus andHegel.
Speiser's doctoral students includeJ. J. Burckhardt.
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