Asher Baer

Russian Jewish mathematician and engraver

Asher Baer

אשר בער

Born| Early 19th century

Seiny, Suwałki Region

Died| 1897

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire

Asher Baer (Hebrew: אשר בער; early 19th century, Seiny – 1897, Jerusalem) was a Russian Jewish mathematician and engraver.

He made many important discoveries in mathematics and especially in mechanics. He discovered a method by which the same force causes two different movements of two equal cog-wheels to dovetail with each other.[1] His engravings were awarded a prize at the Königsberg Exhibition of 1858.[2] The German press of that time devoted many articles to Baer's valuable inventions, and Ossip Rabbinovich and O. Wohl in the Russo-Jewish periodicals Razsvyet and Ha-Karmel spoke highly of his talent.[3][4] In the later part of the 1860s Baer went to Jerusalem, whence he wrote correspondence for many years for Ha-Maggid and other Hebrew periodicals.[5]

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herman, Rosenthal (1901–1906). "Baer, Asher". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

1. ^ Königsberger Zeitung, no. 8. 11 January 1856.
2. ^ Journal of the Politechnische Gesellschaft zu Königsberg, p. 41. 9 October 1858.
3. ^ Russian supplement to Ha-Karmel, no 37. 1860.
4. ^ Wilenski Vyestnik, no. 29. 1861.
5. ^ Herman, Rosenthal (1901–1906). "Baer, Asher". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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