Anton Felkel is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Anton Felkel as Austrian mathematician.
Anton Felkel was born at Kamieniec Ząbkowicki in 1740. He studied at University of Vienna.
This was the age of analysis, when the calculus was pushed hard and its foundations were not yet secure.
The recorded fields of work are number theory.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
Anton Felkel died in 1800, aged 60. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Fields: number theory
