Yakov Kulik
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Jakob Philipp Kulik was an Austria
n mathematician
known for his construction of a massive factor tables.
From about 1825 until 1863 Kulik produced a factor table of numbers up to 100330200 (except for numbers divisible by 2, 3, or 5). This table basically had the same format than the table to 30 millions and it is therefore most likely that the work on the "Magnus canon divisorum" spanned from the mid 1820s to Kulik's death, at which time the tables were still unfinished. These tables fill eight volumes totaling 4212 pages, and are kept in the archives of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Volume II of the 8 volume set has been lost.
Austria
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Mathematician
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known for his construction of a massive factor tables.
Biography
Kulik was born in Lemberg, which was part of the Austrian empire, and is now Lviv located in Ukraine.Kulik's factor tables
In 1825, Kulik mentioned a table of factors up to 30 millions, but this table does no longer seem to exist. It is also not clear if it had really been completed.From about 1825 until 1863 Kulik produced a factor table of numbers up to 100330200 (except for numbers divisible by 2, 3, or 5). This table basically had the same format than the table to 30 millions and it is therefore most likely that the work on the "Magnus canon divisorum" spanned from the mid 1820s to Kulik's death, at which time the tables were still unfinished. These tables fill eight volumes totaling 4212 pages, and are kept in the archives of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Volume II of the 8 volume set has been lost.
Works
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Handbuch mathematischer Tafeln, 1824
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Divisores numerorum decies centena millia non excedentium, 1825
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Theorie und Tafeln der Kettenlinie, 1832
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Sammlung von Tafeln zur Erleichterung des Studiums der Mathematik, und mit Rücksicht ihrer Anwendbarkeit auf Zwecke des praktischen Lebens, 1833
- Untersuchungen über die Kettenbrückenlinie, 1838
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Tafeln der Quadrat- und Kubikzahlen, 1848
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Neue Multiplikationstafeln, 1851
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Tafeln der hyperbolischen Sektoren und der Längen elliptischer Bögen und Quadranten , 1851
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Über die Tafel primitiver Wurzeln, 1853
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Beiträge zur Auflösung höherer Gleichungen überhaupt und der kubischen Gleichungen insbesondere, 1860
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Magnus Canon Divisorum, ca. 1825–1863 (N. G. W. H. BeegerN. G. W. H. BeegerNicolaas George Wijnand Henri Beeger was a Dutch mathematician. His 1916 doctorate was on Dirichlet series. He worked for most of his life as a teacher, working on mathematics papers in his spare evenings...
ed.), Jakob Philipp Kulik, Luigi Poletti, R. J. Porter, Liste des nombres premiers du onzième million: (plus précisément de 10.006.741 à 10.999.997), Association française pour l'avancement des sciences, Ed. "Werto,", 1951
External links
- A reconstruction of Kulik's main tables can be found on http://locomat.loria.fr
- Archive of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/biblio/en/Archiv/Archiv.html