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jacob, lüroth, february, 1844, mannheim, germany, september, 1910, munich, germany, german, mathematician, proved, lüroth, theorem, introduced, lüroth, quartics, name, sometimes, written, lueroth, following, common, printing, convention, umlauted, characters, . Jacob Luroth 18 February 1844 Mannheim Germany 14 September 1910 Munich Germany was a German mathematician who proved Luroth s theorem and introduced Luroth quartics His name is sometimes written Lueroth following the common printing convention for umlauted characters He began his studies in astronomy at the University of Bonn but switched to mathematics when his poor eyesight made taking astronomical observations impossible He received his doctorate in 1865 from Heidelberg University for a thesis on Pascal s theorem 1 Jacob LurothFrom 1868 he was at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology where he became a professor in 1869 and from 1880 he was a professor at the Technical University of Munich succeeding Felix Klein In 1883 he became a professor at the University of Freiburg where he remained until his retirement 2 Following up on Carl Friedrich Gauss work on statistics Luroth discovered the t distribution usually credited to William Sealy Gosset In modern terms the calculation that led Luroth to the t distribution was the computation of a Bayesian interval 3 In honor of his mathematical achievements Luroth was elected to the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1882 to the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina the following year and in 1909 to the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 1 See also editDistributive lattice Netto s theorem Luroth quartic Luroth s theoremReferences edit a b O Connor John J Robertson Edmund F Jacob Luroth MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive University of St Andrews Luroth Jacob Deutsche Biographie www deutsche biographie de in German Retrieved 2020 12 23 Pfanzagl J Sheynin O 1996 A forerunner of the t distribution Studies in the history of probability and statistics XLIV Biometrika 83 4 891 898 doi 10 1093 biomet 83 4 891 MR 1766040 Burau Werner 2008 Lueroth or Luroth Jakob Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Jacob Luroth at the Mathematics Genealogy Project nbsp Media related to Jacob Luroth mathematician at Wikimedia Commons nbsp This article about a German mathematician is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jacob Luroth amp oldid 1192846957, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,