Max Simon (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Simon (mathematician)

German mathematician and historian of mathematics

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1844

Place of Birth: Kołobrzeg, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1918

Profession: mathematician, historian of mathematics

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Maximilian Simon (born 8 June 1844 in Kolobrzeg; died 15 January 1918 in Strasbourg) was a German historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher.
He was concerned mostly with mathematics in the antiquity. Born into a Jewish family, he studied from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D.
from Karl Weierstrass und Ernst Eduard Kummer He was a mathematics teacher in Berlin from 1868 to 1871, and in Strasbourg from 1871 to 1912, where he became an honorary professor of the university.