Eugen Jahnke

Paul Rudolf Eugen Jahnke (November 30, 1861, in Berlin – October 18, 1921, in Berlin) was a German mathematician.[1]

Eugen Jahnke
Born	Paul Rudolf Eugen Jahnke 30 November 1861 Berlin, Germany
Died	18 October 1921(1921-10-18) (aged 57) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Humboldt University of Berlin Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Technical University of Berlin
Thesis	Zur Integration von Differentialgleichungen erster Ordnung, in Welchen die Unabhängige Veränderliche Explicite nicht Vorkommt, durch Eindeutige Doppeltperiodische Funktionen (1889)
Doctoral advisor	Albert Wangerin

Jahnke studied mathematics and physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he graduated in 1886. In 1889 he received his doctorate from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg under Albert Wangerin on the integration of first-order ordinary differential equations.[2] After that, he was a teacher at secondary schools in Berlin, where he simultaneously in 1901 taught at the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg and in 1905 he became a professor at the Mining Academy in Berlin, which merged in 1916 with the Berlin Institute of Technology. In 1919 he was rector of the Berlin Institute of Technology.[3]

In 1900 Jahnke read a paper at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris.[4] He was editor of the Archives of Mathematics and Physics and contributor to the Yearbook for the Progress of Mathematics. He wrote an early book on vector calculus but is now known primarily for his function tables, which first appeared in 1909. This was also translated into English and was in print into the 1960s. Fritz Emde (Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart) contributed to later editions, as did others.