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89:(see external link below) that Wussing's "main thesis, ably defended and well documented, is that the roots of the abstract notion of a group do not lie, as frequently assumed, only in the theory of algebraic equations, but they are also to be found in the geometry and in the theory of numbers at the end of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries". Newman comments that Wussings 20: 111:
Wussing is the author of numerous scientific historical publications, the author of many mathematicians' biographies, and co-editor of several series of publications, including biographies in the Teubner Verlag, and several volumes in the series
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Promoted from a department head at the Karl-Sudhoff Institute, he headed the institute from 1977 to 1982. In 1971 he became a corresponding member of the
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was one of his teachers. In 1952 he took the state examination, and received his doctorate in 1957. His dissertation was on embedding
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The 60-page appendix "CF Gauss and BG Teubner" for the 200th anniversary of its founding on February 21, 1811, in Leipzig.
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is "oddly arranged". Newman also notes that a broader perspective on the topic would require reading the works of
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Die Genesis des abstrackten Gruppenbegriffes. Ein Beitrag zur Entstehungsgeschichte der abstrakten Gruppentheorie
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was published in German; it was translated by Abe Shenitzer and Hardy Grant in 1984. B.H. Newman wrote in
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Wussing graduated from high school, and from 1947 to 52 studied mathematics and physics at the
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2003: (with H. W. Alten, A. Djafari Naini, Folkerts, H. Schlosser, K.-H. Chimneys):
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The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann
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Biographical and Literary Pocket Dictionary of the History of Exact Sciences.
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concept. From 1966 to 1968 WuĂźing was lecturer, and from 1968 professor, of
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Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology, and Medicine
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Mathematics 6000 years – a cultural and historical journey through time
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Biographien bedeutender Mathematiker – eine Sammlung von Biographien
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The major renovation – on the history of the scientific revolution
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"Hans Wussing". 483: 18: 198:, Leipzig, Teubner, second Edition 1976 647: 374:International Mathematical Union (IMU) 335: 161:, Leipzig, Teubner, and Aachen, Mayer. 528: 397:Genesis of the Abstract Group Concept 244:Fachlexikon ABC Forscher und Erfinder 108:in Leipzig. Wussing retired in 1992. 83:Genesis of the Abstract Group Concept 214:, Leipzig, Teubner, 4th Edition 1990 201:1975: (editor with Wolfgang Arnold) 115:Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften 230:Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 13: 685:21st-century German mathematicians 670:20th-century German mathematicians 14: 706: 513: 675:German historians of mathematics 420:Lebesgue's Theory of Integration 454:10.1090/S0002-9904-1972-12909-4 695:21st-century German historians 690:20th-century German historians 556:Kenneth O. May Prize laureates 467:H. Wussing (1989, 1992, 2009) 461: 430:, by I. Grattan-Guinness; and 406: 387: 144:His doctoral students include 122:'s work on functional theory, 1: 322: 302:. Mathematics and Renaissance 134:. In 1993 he was awarded the 424:A History of Vector Analysis 7: 151: 10: 711: 336:Dauben, Joseph W. (1999). 34:– April 26, 2011 in 680:Leipzig University alumni 562: 498:10.1007/s00048-007-0272-z 106:Saxon Academy of Sciences 221:, Cologne, Aulis Verlag. 40:historian of mathematics 426:, by Michael J. Crowe; 49: 414:Waterhouse, William C. 355:10.1006/hmat.1999.2227 72:history of mathematics 24: 665:German schoolteachers 609:Ivor Grattan-Guinness 441:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc 422:, by Thomas Hawkins; 286:Industrial Revolution 56:University of Leipzig 30:(October 15, 1927 in 22: 571:Adolph P. Yushkevich 402:Mathematical Reviews 342:Historia Mathematica 310:Carl Friedrich Gauss 248:Verlag Harri Deutsch 195:Carl Friedrich Gauss 136:Kenneth O. May Prize 87:Mathematical Reviews 593:UbiratĂ n D'Ambrosio 393:B.H. 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Waldheim
Leipzig
historian of mathematics
science
University of Leipzig
Ernst Hölder
finite groups
group
history of mathematics
natural sciences
Mathematical Reviews
bibliography
George Abram Miller
International Academy of the History of Science
Saxon Academy of Sciences
Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften
Euler
Gauss's diary
Felix Klein
Erlangen program
Kenneth O. May Prize
Walter Purkert
MIT Press
Nicholas Copernicus
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Isaac Newton
Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften
Verlag Harri Deutsch
Birkhäuser

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