Georg Helm
Mathematician, Author
1851 – 1923
Who was Georg Helm?
Georg Ferdinand Helm was a German mathematician.
Helm graduated from high school from the Annenschule in Dresden in 1867. Thereafter he studied mathematics and natural sciences at the Dresden Polytechnical School, and then at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin from 1871 to 1873.
Helm first taught at the Annenschule, his high school alma mater. Then he taught mathematics und physics at the Dresden University of Technology and at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic from 1888 until 1922. He was an interdisciplinarian, whose teaching responsibilities included a seminar on insurance statistics. Helm coined the term “mathematical chemistry”. His work in the area of economics postulated that money was the economic equivalent of the lowest form of social entropy as described in his work “Teachings on Energy”.
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- Born
- Mar 15, 1851
Dresden - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Leipzig University
- Died
- Sep 13, 1923
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on July 23, 2013
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