Hans Beck (mathematician)

Hans Beck was a German mathematician.

Hans Heinrich Rudolf Beck was born 16 August 1876 in Altzarrendorf, Kreis Grimmon, Province of Pomerania, Prussia. He studied science at University of Griefswald. In 1902 he taught in Ostern, in 1903 in Hannover, and from 1909 to 1917 in Charlottenburg.

He began research with Eduard Study at University of Bonn and produced a dissertation on hyperbolic geometry. He translated Maxime Bôcher's Introduction to Higher Algebra in 1910. In 1917 he took a position at the university. He produced a textbook on coordinate geometry in 1919, and was promoted to professor in 1920. His Introduction to the Axiomatics of Algebra appeared in 1926. He died in Bonn, Germany on 24 October 1942.

He was a member of mathematical societies: German Mathematical Society, Berliner Mathmatischer Gesellschaft, and Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

Works

• 1910: (as translator) Einführung in die höhere Algebra by Maxime Bôcher
• 1910: Ein Seitenstück zur Mobius'schen Geometrie der Kreisverwandschaften, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 11
• 1919: Koordinatengeometrie, Julius Springer
• 1926: Einfuhrung in die Axiomatik der Algebra

References

• Hans Heinrich Rudolf Beck, Who's Who in Science International (1914) page 150
• P. Weinmeister (1926) Hans Beck, Poggendorffs Bd V 1926 pages 78,9
• Franz Kössler (2008) "Beck, Hans", Personenlexikon von Lehrern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Berufsbiographien aus Schul-Jahresberichten und Schulprogrammen 1825–1918 mit Veröffentlichungsverzeichnissen, Vorabdruck (Preprint) Auflage. Baack – Buzello, S. 128
• Hans Beck at the Mathematics Genealogy Project