Georg Scheffers

Georg Scheffers (21 November 1866 – 12 August 1945) was a German mathematician specializing in differential geometry.

[3] In 1907 Scheffers published the first two volumes of his extensive revision and rewriting of Georg Bohlmann's 1897–1899 revision of Harnack's 1884 German translation of Serret's famous two-volume Cours de calcul différentiel et intégral,[4] which was first published by Gauthier-Villars in 1868.

[5] In 1909 Scheffers published the third and last volume of his rewriting of Bohlman's version of Serret's two-volume work.

[7] Another very successful book was prepared for students of science and technology: Lehrbuch der Mathematik (textbook of mathematics).

In 1891 Georg Scheffers contributed his article "Zurückführung komplexer Zahlensysteme auf typische Formen" to Mathematische Annalen (39:293–390).

This article addressed a topic of considerable interest in the 1890s and contributed to the development of modern algebra.

Though the article covers new ground with its exploration of Nqss, it is also a literature review going back to the work of Hermann Hankel.

For volume 41 of Mathematische Annalen Scheffers contributed a further short note, this time including reference to 1867 work by Edmond Laguerre on linear systems, a rich source of hypercomplex numbers.