``Knowledge gained by experience'': Olaus Henrici -- engineer, geometer and maker of mathematical models
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instance of: scholarly article
title: ``Knowledge gained by experience'': Olaus Henrici -- engineer, geometer and maker of mathematical models
zbMATH Open document ID: 1471.01014
author: June Barrow-Green
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 2021-06-22T00:00:00Z
review text: The paper is devoted to the German mathematician Olaus Henrici (1840--1918), in particular to the geometrical side of his work. While working at University College he became an active promoter of pure geometry and a producer of models of surfaces. The author attempts to answer the following questions: What prompted Henrici's interest in models? To what extent was he involved in the physical process of production? How did he use them? How were the models received? To answer these questions the author is setting the problem into the context of Henrici's career and arguing that his interdisciplinary background was a key factor in his success as a creator of models.
reviewed by: Roman Murawski
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 97-03
zbMATH DE Number: 7361885
zbMATH Keywords: models of surfaces
zbMATH Keywords: geometry in 19th-century Britain
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.hm.2020.10.003
OpenAlex ID: W3095655803
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DOI: 10.1016/J.HM.2020.10.003
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7361885