John Hazzidakis

Ioannis "John" N. Hazzidakis (Ιωάννης Χατζιδάκις, or Hatzidakis or Chatzidakis, 1844 – 1921) was a Greek mathematician, known for the Hazzidakis transform in differential geometry.[1][2][3][4] The Hazzidakis formula for the Hazzidakis transform can be applied in proving Hilbert's theorem on negative curvature, stating that hyperbolic geometry does not have a model in 3-dimensional Euclidean space.[5]

Biography

He was born in Crete in 1844. He completed his basic education in Syros and from 1863 he studied mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1868 and went on a scholarship from the University in Paris and Berlin to continue his studies.[6] He was a student of the Paris school of differential geometry and of Karl Weierstrass in Berlin.[1]

He returned to Greece and was appointed a lecturer in 1880 and then a professor ordinarius in 1884, retiring in 1914 as professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Athens. He also taught theoretical mechanics at the National Technical University of Athens (1888–1914) and mathematics at the Academy of Sciences (1873–1900) and the Naval Academy of Sciences (1886–1891).[6] At the University of Athens, he was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy[7] for the academic year 1890-1891, Dean of the School of Sciences for the academic year 1904–1905, and Dean of the School of Philosophy for the academic year 1911–1912.[8] He died in 1921.[6]

He was the father of the linguist Georgios Hatzidakis and the mathematician Nikolaos Hatzidakis.

Writings

According to William Caspar Graustein, a mathematical statement first made by Louis Raffy was published in 1893 with an erroneous proof; Hazzidakis gave a valid proof of the statement in 1897.[9][10]

Hazzidakis wrote numerous research and pedagogical works, among the latter are:[6]

  • Εισαγωγή εις την ανωτέρα άλγεβρα (Introduction to Advanced Algebra);
  • Επίπεδος αναλυτική γεωμετρία (Plane Analytic Geometry);
  • Διαφορικός λογισμός (Differential Calculus);
  • Θεωρητική Μηχανική (Theoretical Mechanics);
  • Στοιχειώδης Γεωμετρία (Elementary Geometry);
  • Στοιχειώδης Αριθμητική (Elementary Arithmetic);
  • Θεωρητική Αριθμητική (Theoretical Arithmetic);
  • Ολοκληρωτικός Λογισμός (Integral Calculus).

Selected articles

The articles of Ιωάννης Χατζιδάκις published in German appeared under the name "J. N. Hazzidakis".

References
  1. Rassias, Themistocles M. "The Greek Mathematical Society" (PDF). European Mathematical Society (newsletter) September 2004. pp. 34–35.
  2. Hazzidakis, J. N. (1879). "Ueber einige Eigenschaften der Flächen mit constantem Krümmungsmaass". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 88: 68–73.
  3. Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler (1905). "Surfaces of constant curvature and their transformations". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 6: 472–485. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1905-1500722-0.
  4. Eisenhart, L. P. (1907). "Applicable surfaces with asymptotic lines of one surface corresponding to a conjugate system of another". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 8: 113–134. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1907-1500778-7. Erratum: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1907), 535
  5. McCleary, John (1994). Geometry from a Differential Viewpoint. Cambridge University Press. p. 206.
  6. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mikhail Stefanidis, ed. (1948). Εκατονταετηρίς 1837 - 1937, Τόμος Ε', Ιστορία της Φυσικομαθηματικής Σχολής (Century 1837 - 1937, Volume E, History of Physical and Mathematical School). Αθήναι (Athens): Πυρσός Α.Ε. (Pyrsos, Ltd.). pp. 18–19.
  7. "Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy - University of Athens" (in Greek).
  8. The School of Philosophy, "Dean of the School of Sciences - University of Athens" (in Greek).
  9. Graustein, W. C. (1924). "Applicability with preservation of both curvatures". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 30: 19–23. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1924-03839-7.
  10. Hazzidakis, J. N. (1897). "Biegung mit Erhaltung der Hauptkrümmungsradien". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 117: 42–56.
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