Jakob Philipp Kulik

Jakob Philipp Kulik (; 20 April 1793 – 28 February 1863) was an Austrian mathematician known for his construction of a massive factor tables.

Biography Kulik was born in Lemberg, Austrian Empire (today Lviv in Ukraine). He studied there philosophy and law. In 1814–1816, he worked as a teacher of mathematics at a gymnasium in Olomouc, but then he went to Graz and taught physics at the University of Graz. In 1826, Kulik became a professor of mathematics at Charles University in Prague. He died on 28 February 1863 in Prague. Kulik is buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague.

Kulik's factor tables In 1825, Kulik mentioned a table of factors up to 30 million, but this table does no longer seem to exist. It is also not clear if it had really been completed.

From about 1825 until 1863 Kulik produced a factor table of numbers up to 100330200 (except for numbers divisible by 2, 3, or 5). This table basically had the same format as the table to 30 million and it is therefore most likely that the work on the "Magnus canon divisorum" spanned from the mid-1820s to Kulik's death, at which time the tables were still unfinished. These tables fill eight volumes totaling 4212 pages, and are kept in the archives of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. Volume II of the 8-volume set has been lost.

Works Jakob Philipp Kulik: De phaenomenis iridis, 1822 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Handbuch mathematischer Tafeln, 1824 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Divisores numerorum decies centena millia non excedentium, 1825 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Lehrbuch der höheren Analysis, 1831 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Der tausendjährige Kalender, 1831 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Theorie und Tafeln der Kettenlinie, 1832 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Sammlung von Tafeln zur Erleichterung des Studiums der Mathematik, und mit Rücksicht ihrer Anwendbarkeit auf Zwecke des praktischen Lebens, 1833 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Der tausendjährige Kalender, 1834 (2nd edition) Jakob Philipp Kulik: Biographie des Martin Alois David, 1837 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Untersuchungen über die Kettenbrückenlinie, 1838 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Tafeln der Quadrat- und Kubikzahlen, 1848 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Neue Multiplikationstafeln, 1851 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Tafeln der hyperbolischen Sektoren und der Längen elliptischer Bögen und Quadranten, 1851 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Über die Tafel primitiver Wurzeln, 1853 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Beiträge zur Auflösung höherer Gleichungen überhaupt und der kubischen Gleichungen insbesondere, 1860 Jakob Philipp Kulik: Magnus Canon Divisorum,