Person: Gutzmer, Karl Friedrich August

August Gutzmer was a German mathematician who worked on differential equations.

Gutzmer had not studied foreign languages at school so he did not gain the required passes in his final examinations to obtain university entrance.
Among those who lectured to Gutzmer in mathematics were L Kronecker, K Weierstrass and L Fuchs.
Gutzmer, therefore studied with two of the three great Berlin mathematicians, Kronecker and Weierstrass, in the last years of their careers.
However the manor was sold and the couple moved to Berlin where Gutzmer was an assistant at the Technischen Hochschule of Charlottenburg.
From 1 October 1894 to 9 January 1895 Gutzmer was in the army but dismissed as being unfit for duty.
On 3 August 1905 Gutzmer took up an appointment to an ordinary professorship at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Highly gifted as a teacher, showing infectious enthusiasm for his topic, Gutzmer taught courses on a wide variety of topics including differential and integral calculus, and analytic geometry at lower level.
Gutzmer received many honours.

Born 2 February 1860, Neu-Roddahn, near Neustadt an der Dosse, Prussia (now Germany). Died 10 May 1924, Halle, Germany.

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