Heinrich Martin Weber

Heinrich Martin Weber (5 March 1842, Heidelberg, Germany – 17 May 1913, Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire, now Strasbourg, France) was a German mathematician. He helped advance algebra, number theory, and analysis. One of his famous books was called Lehrbuch der Algebra, which came out in 1895.

Weber worked with another famous mathematician, Dedekind. They created a theory that linked algebra and geometry. This helped people understand special shapes called Riemann surfaces. Weber published many papers in well-known math journals like Crelle's Journal and Mathematische Annalen. He also edited the works of Riemann.

Weber was born in Heidelberg and studied at the University of Heidelberg. He taught at many universities, such as in Zürich at the Federal Polytechnic Institute (now the ETH Zurich), the University of Königsberg, and the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin). His last job was at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität Straßburg, where he passed away.

In 1893, Weber’s work was shown at a big math meeting in Chicago during the World's Columbian Exposition. He was president of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung in 1895 and again in 1904. Some mathematicians he helped guide were Heinrich Brandt, E. V. Huntington, Louis Karpinski, and Friedrich Levi.

Publications

Heinrich Martin Weber wrote many important books about math. He worked with Richard Dedekind on a book about algebraic functions. He also wrote about elliptic functions and numbers, and a big handbook for math teachers. Together with Bernhard Riemann, he wrote about physics equations. His most famous work is Lehrbuch der Algebra, a big book about algebra that he wrote over many years.