Johann Christoph Heilbronner

Johann Christoph Heilbronner (March 13, 1706, Ulm - January 17, 1745 (or c.1747), Leipzig) was a German mathematical historian (Mathematikhistoriker) and theologian.

Literary works

Versuch einer Geschichte der Mathematik and Arithmetik (), 1739
Historia matheseos universae a mundo condito ad seculum post Chr. Nat. XVI (or Historia matheseos universae; ), 1742

These two books are the first books that named and used the phrase "mathematical history (German: Geschichte der Mathematik, Latin: Historia matheseos)".

External links

Heilbronner, Johann Christoph von Moritz Cantor in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 11 (1880), S. 313.
(German)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 67297082 ISNI: 0000 0000 1262 9405 SUDOC: 081210248

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/25/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.