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Antonín Václav Šourek (3 June 1857 – 20 February 1926) was a Czech mathematician. He is noteworthy as one of the founders of modern mathematics in Bulgaria (which became modernized after the Treaty of San Stefano.)
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Antonín Václav Šourek (3 June 1857 – 20 February 1926) was a Czech mathematician. He is noteworthy as one of the founders of modern mathematics in Bulgaria (which became modernized after the Treaty of San Stefano.)
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Life and career Antonín Šourek was born on 3 June 1857 in Písek, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He graduated in 1876 from a Realschule in Písek. From 1876 to 1878, he studied at TU Wien, where he attended lectures on mathematics, physics, and descriptive geometry. He was a student of Emil Weyr. Šourek then went to Czech Technical University in Prague, where he furthered his knowledge of mathematics, physics, and descriptive geometry. In 1880, he passed the examination certifying teaching competence in mathematics and descriptive geometry and went to Bulgaria. There in September 1880 he became a mathematics teacher at the Realschule in Sliven. A year later he was transferred from Sliven to Plovdiv. From there, in 1890, he moved to the Realschule in Sofia, where he was almost simultaneously appointed professor extraordinarius at Sofia University (founded in October 1888). In 1893 he resigned from the Realschule and completely transferred to Sofia University, where he was appointed professor ordinarius in 1898. From the years 1893 to 1902, while continuing his professorial duties at Sofia University, he lectured on descriptive geometry at a school for teacher training. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1904 at Heidelberg.…
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A. V. Šourek is also considered to be the founder of the Bulgarian terminology in descriptive geometry. Thanks to his good knowledge of Bulgarian and other languages (Czech, German, French, Italian), his deep knowledge of syntax, close cooperation with philologists and above all to his perfect knowledge of descriptive geometry itself, he developed a very successful system of the essential terms with wide possibilities of a more detailed evolution. Thanks to his method and prestige among the members of the Bulgarian community, most of his terms are used without any change or at most with only small modifications.