Max Simon (mathematician)
Maximilian Simon was a German historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher. He was concerned mostly with mathematics in 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 1906Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte, Berlin: B. Cassirer 1909Nichteuklidische Geometrie in elementarer Behandlung, Teubner 1925Analytische Geometrie der Ebene, 3rd edition, 1900Analytische Geometrie des Raumes, 2 volumes, Sammlung Göschen 1900, 1901