Mathematician:Jakob Philipp Kulik

Mathematician
Austrian mathematician known for his construction of mathematical tables.

A table containing the factors of all integers up to $100 \, 000 \, 000$, which he had spent $20$ years working on as a hobby, remained uncompleted and unpublished at his death.

Donated over $1000$ of his own books to help rebuild the collection at the University of Lemberg, which had been destroyed by fire in $1848$.

In $1862$, again donated a large part of his collection, this time to the newly-founded Society for Open Lectures in Mathematics and Physics in Prague.

On his death, the rest of his collection was donated to that society.

Nationality
Austrian, of Polish descent

History

 * Born: 1 May 1793 in Lemberg, Austrian Empire (now L'viv, Ukraine)
 * 1814: Won a professorship at the Lyceum at Olomouc (now Olmetz), Germany, as a result of a competition
 * 1816: Appointed Professor of Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Lyceum of Graz
 * 1817: Took on additional duties teaching astronomy at Joanneum in Graz
 * 1822: Received doctorate for a thesis which studied the rainbow
 * 1826: Professor of Higher Mathematics at the Charles University of Prague
 * Died: 28 February 1863 in Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)

Books and Papers

 * 1824: Handbuch mathematischer ("Handbook of mathematics")
 * 1825: Divisores numerorum decies centena millia non excedentium ("Tables of simple factors of all numbers under one million")
 * 1831: Lehrbuch der höheren Analysis ("Textbook of higher analysis")
 * 1831: Der tausendjährige Kalender ("The Millennial Calendar")
 * 1832: ''Theorie und Tafeln der Kettenlinie' ("Theory and tables for the catenary")
 * 1833: Toasirtafeln, zur leichtern Berechnung des Längen- Flächenund Kubik-Inhaltes und der verschiedenen Münz- Mass- und Gewichts-Beträge ("Tables to facilitate calculation of length, area, cubic content and various coin and weight amounts")
 * 1834: Der tausendjährige Kalender(2nd edition)
 * 1838: Untersuchungen über die Kettenbrückenlinie ("Studies of the cables of the Chain Bridge")
 * 1844: Lehrbuch der höheren Analysis (2nd edition)
 * 1846: Anfangsgründe der höheren mechanik
 * 1848: Tafeln der Quadrat- und Kubik-Zahlen aller natürlichen Zahlen bis hundert Tausend, nebst ihrer Anwendung auf die Zerlegung grosser Zahlen in ihre Faktoren ("Tables of square and cube numbers of all natural numbers to a hundred thousand. In addition, application to the decomposition of large numbers into their factors")
 * 1851: Neue Multiplikationstafeln: ein unentbehrliches Hülfsmittel für Jedermann, um schnell, sicher und ohne Ermüdung zu rechnen ("New multiplication tables: an indispensable expedients for everyone to count quickly, safely and without fatigue")
 * 1851: Tafeln der hyperbolischen Sektoren und der Längen elliptischer Bögen und Quadranten ("Tables of hyperbolic sectors and the lengths of elliptical arcs and quadrants")
 * 1853: Über die Tafel primitiver Wurzeln ("On the layout of primitive roots").

Also known as
His first name can also be seen as Jacob or Yakov.