Max Simon (mathematician)
Maximilian Simon 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.Works
- Euclid und die sechs planimetrischen Bücher, Teubner 1901
- , Bericht der Deutschen Mathematikervereinigung, Teubner 1906
- Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte, Berlin: B. Cassirer 1909
- Nichteuklidische Geometrie in elementarer Behandlung, Teubner 1925
- Analytische Geometrie der Ebene, 3rd edition, 1900
- Analytische Geometrie des Raumes, 2 volumes, Sammlung Göschen 1900, 1901
