Johann Christoph Heilbronner
{{Short description|German mathematical historian and theologian}}
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Johann Christoph Heilbronner (13 March 1706, in Ulm – 17 January 1745 (or c.1747), in Leipzig) was a German mathematical historian (Mathematikhistoriker) and theologian.
Literary works
- Versuch einer Geschichte der Mathematik and Arithmetik (), 1739
- Historia matheseos universae a mundo condito ad seculum post Chr. Nat. XVI (or Historia matheseos universae; ), 1742
These two books are the first books that named and used the phrase "mathematical history ({{langx|de|Geschichte der Mathematik}}, {{langx|la|Historia matheseos}})".
External links
- Heilbronner, Johann Christoph von Moritz Cantor in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 11 (1880), S. 313.
- [http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch/exhibit/fibonacci/fibonacci-05-Heilbronner.html] (German)
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Category:German historians of mathematics
Category:18th-century German Christian theologians
Category:German male non-fiction writers
Category:18th-century German writers
Category:18th-century German male writers
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