Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut

Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut
Born	22 December 1775 Harburg
Died	4 November 1832 Göttingen
Nationality	German
Notable work	Dissertatio historiam controversiae circa numerorum negativorum et impossibilium logarithmos sistens

Dissertatio historiam controversiae circa numerorum negativorum et impossibilium logarithmos sistens, 1797

Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut (22 December 1775 – 4 November 1832) was a German mathematician.

He was the younger brother of the famous jurist Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut. He studied at the University of Göttingen along with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Beckmann, and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner. In 1797 he became lecturer (Privatdozent) in Göttingen. In 1802 he became extraodinary and in 1805 ordinary professor of philosophy.[1] Mathematics were his favourite field of lessons, and he was well known as a brilliant lecturer, in contrast to Carl Friedrich Gauss, who was professor for astronomy in Göttingen since 1807 and disliked giving lessons. Thibaut finally became professor of mathematics in 1828.

Since 1804, Thibaut was an ordinary member of the Academy of Science in Göttingen.[2]

Works

• Thibaut, Bernhard Friedrich (1797). Dissertatio historiam controversiae circa numerorum negativorum et impossibilium logarithmos sistens (in Latin). Gottingae: Johann Christian Dieterich. (Doctoral thesis)

References

1. At that time all subjects apart from theology, iurisprudence and medicine were united in the Faculty of Philosophy, the lecturers could teach all these faculty subjects.
2. Members of the Göttingen Academy of Science : Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut