Karl Rohn belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Karl Rohn as mathematician (1855-1920).
Karl Rohn was born at Schwanheim in 1855. His recorded nationality is Germany. He studied at Technical University of Darmstadt and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
The nineteenth century made mathematics rigorous: definitions were tightened, foundations questioned, and whole fields created from scratch.
His academic posts were held at Leipzig University, TU Dresden and Leipzig University.
The recorded fields of work are geometry.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from Germany matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Karl Rohn died in 1920, aged 65. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at Leipzig University, TU Dresden and Leipzig University
- Fields: geometry
