Edmund Hlawka

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Edmund Hlawka at the DMV's golden badge of honor in November 2003

Edmund Hlawka (born November 5, 1916 in Bruck an der Mur , † February 19, 2009 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mathematician .

Life

Hlawka studied from 1934 to 1938 at the University of Vienna with Hans Thirring , Wilhelm Wirtinger , Philipp Furtwängler , Kurt Gödel and Nikolaus Hofreiter . In 1938 he received his doctorate of philosophy with the topic at Hofreiter to the doctor about the approximations of two complex inhomogeneous linear forms . He qualified as a professor by proving Minkowski-Hlawka's theorem. In 1944 he married Rosa Reiterer. In 1948 he was appointed professor at the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Vienna. In 1959 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 1964 he was awarded the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art . In 1981 he moved to the Institute for Analysis, Technical Mathematics and Actuarial Mathematics at the Technical University of Vienna , where he worked until his retirement in 1987.

His areas of work include the geometry of numbers , discrete geometry and the theory of uniform distribution.

Edmund Hlawka is considered the most influential Austrian mathematician of the second half of the 20th century. Due to his many years of teaching activity, he is known to many mathematics (teachers), scientists and technicians in Austria. More than 40 mathematicians have obtained their doctorate with him. His best-known doctoral students include the Austrian computer scientists Hermann Maurer , Adolf Adam and Walter Knödel as well as the Austrian mathematicians Johann Cigler , Willibald Dörfler , Herbert Fleischner , Harald Niederreiter , Walter Philipp , Wolfgang M. Schmidt , Fritz Schweiger , Robert Tichy and Rudolf Taschner .

It was given a rare honor by naming an asteroid : the International Astronomical Union (IAU) named the minor planet 10763 "Hlawka".

He was buried at the Neustift cemetery in Vienna (group 20, row 5, grave no. 3).

Prizes and awards

Quotes

Edmund Hlawka was in the habit of writing sketches of the content of his lectures on the back of tickets (Vienna's public transport system was then about 4 × 5 cm in size). Many of his students know the joke he likes to make: "The conductress pinched my potency away!"

Fonts

  • With Christa Binder , Peter Schmitt: Basic Concepts of Mathematics. Prugg Verlag, Vienna 1979. ISBN 3-85385-038-3 .
  • Theory of equal distribution. Bibliographical Institute, 1979. ISBN 3-411-01565-9 .
  • Selecta. Edited by Peter M. Gruber and Wolfgang M. Schmidt. Springer, Berlin 1990. ISBN 3-540-50623-3 .
  • With Johannes Schoißengeier: Number theory. An introduction. Manz-Verlag, Vienna 1979.
  • You don't get math for free. Interview with Hlawka, DMV Mitteilungen 1999, No. 2, p. 42.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmund Hlawka in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ IAU Minor Planet Center.
  3. ↑ a b c List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).

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personal data
SURNAME Hlawka, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hlawka, Edmund Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 2009
Place of death Vienna