Olaus Henrici

Olaus Henrici
Olaus Henrici (year unknown)
Born	(1840-03-09)9 March 1840 Meldorf, Duchy of Holstein
Died	10 August 1918(1918-08-10) (aged 78) Chandler's Ford, England
Residence	United Kingdom
Nationality	Germany
Institutions	University College London, Central Technical College
Alma mater	Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
Doctoral advisor	Otto Hesse
Other academic advisors	Karl Weierstrass, Leopold Kronecker
Notable students	Raphael Weldon
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society

Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, FRS (9 March 1840, Meldorf, Duchy of Holstein – 10 August 1918, Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, England) was a German mathematician.

Henrici attained his Dr. phil. degree on 6 June 1863 at University of Heidelberg. He was from 1865 to 1866 docent of mathematics and physics at the University of Kiel. On 4 June 1870 he became a professor of mathematics at University College London (UCL) and in March 1884 at the Royal College of Science in London. Henrici was from 1882 to 1884 the president of the London Mathematical Society.

Works

• Skeleton of structures: especially in their application to the building of steel and iron bridges. New York: Van Nostrand, 1867.
• Congruent figures, 1878.
• Elementary geometry. London: Longmans, Green, 1879.
• Vectors and rotors, 1903.

Bibliography

• Hall, A. Rupert (1982). Science for industry: a short history of the Imperial College of Science and Technology and its antecedents. Imperial College. ISBN 978-0-85287-143-0. 
• Hill, M. J. M. (1918). "Professor Olaus Henrici". Proc. London Math. Soc. 17 (1): xlii–xlix. doi:10.1112/plms/s2-17.1.1-u. 

External links

• Works written by or about Olaus Magnus Friedrich Henrici at Wikisource
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Olaus Henrici", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
• Olaus Henrici at the Mathematics Genealogy Project