Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt (4 August 1807 – 15 February 1851)[1][2][3] was a German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist of Jewish descent[4] who was a professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen.[1] He is also known as Benjamin Goldschmidt,[2] C. W. B. Goldschmidt,[5][6] Carl Goldschmidt, and Karl Goldschmidt.[3]
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Nahin, Paul J. (2011). When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible. Princeton University Press. p. 272.
[...] obituary notice that appeared in the 1851 volume of the American Journal of Science (pp. 443–4). There it is reported that Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt was a professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen [...] and served as an assistant to the great Gauss at the observatory there. [...] He had long suffered from the consequences of an enlargement of the heart; and on the morning of Feb. 15, he was found in his bed, sleeping the sleep that knows no waking.
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Dunnington, G. Waldo (2004). Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science. Mathematical Association of America. p. 226. ISBN 9780883855478.
On February 15, 1851, Gauss' assistant Benjamin Goldschmidt died very suddenly at the age of forty-four. He had been observing the night before and had shown some visitors the Pleiades through the telescope. He was found dead in bed early the next morning.
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Kolmogorov, Andrei N.; Yushkevich, Adolf-Andrei P. (1996). Mathematics of the 19th Century: Vol. II: Geometry, Analytic Function Theory. Springer Publishing. p. 199.
Thus in the summer he [Bernhard Riemann] attended the lectures of Moritz Stern (1807–1894) on the numerical solution of equations and those of Karl Goldschmidt (1807–1851) on terrestrial magnetism [...]
- ^ Küssner, Martha (1982). "Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt und Moritz Abraham Stern, zwei Gaußschüler jüdischer Herkunft" [Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt and Moritz Abraham Stern, Two Gauss Students of Jewish Origin]. Mitteilungen der Gauß-Gesellschaft [Releases of the Gauss Society] (in German) (19). Göttingen: 37–62.
- ^ Eduard Schmidt, J. C.; Goldschmidt, C. W. B. (1834). Lehrbuch der analytischen Optik (Google eBook). Retrieved 2012-08-27.
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Nahin, Paul J. (2011). When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible. Princeton University Press. p. 266.
This discontinuous behavior is called the Goldschmidt solution, after the German mathematician C. W. B. Goldschmidt (1807–51) who discovered it (on paper) in 1831.