Christoph Rudolff [SEP] date of death
Christoph Rudolff
Christoph Rudolff (born 1499 in Jawor, Silesia, died 1545 in Vienna) was the author of the first German textbook on algebra.
From 1517 to 1521, Rudolff was a student of Henricus Grammateus (Schreyber from Erfurt) at the University of Vienna and was the author of a book computing, under the title: "" (Nimble and beautiful calculation via the artful rules of algebra [which] are so commonly called "coss").
He introduced the radical symbol (√) for
be traced back to this incident. When this prediction failed, he did not make any other predictions.
In 1535 he became minister in Holzdorf near Wittenberg and stayed there for 12 years. Stifel now continued with serious mathematical studies. Worth mentioning were "the Coss" (the first algebra book written in German) of Christoph Rudolff, which he did in self study and "the Elements" of Euclid in the Latin edition by Campanus of Novara.
A proposal of Jacob Milich, who supported his scientific development.