Gregor Michailowitsch spruce wood

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Grigori Michailowitsch Fichtenholz ( Russian Григо́рий Миха́йлович Фихтенгольц , Germanized Gregor ; English transcription Gregory Fikhtengol'ts; *  June 5, 1888 in Odessa ; †  June 25, 1959 in Leningrad ) was a founder of a Russian mathematician and author of a Russian mathematician, Leningrad school internationally known three-volume textbook differential and integral calculus .

biography

GM Fichtenholz finished his studies at the University of Odessa in 1911 and then worked at the Electrotechnical Institute in Petrograd from 1915 to 1920. From 1918 he was employed as a professor at the University of Petrograd, in the same year he received his doctorate there under Samuil Ossipowitsch Schatunowski . From 1929 he held the chair for mathematical analysis. In 1935 he became a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences . During the Second World War, he and his school were evacuated to Saratov from the winter of 1941/42 . In 1953 he went into (forced) retirement.

Spruce wood also dealt with mathematics education for students and often gave lectures to students. After the revolution in 1917 he became a member of the Expert Council of the People's Commissariat for Education of the Russian SFSR , headed the commission for the compilation of the school curriculum and was the initiator of the Mathematics Olympiads in 1934. In 1922, together with Jakob Davidowitsch Tamarkin , he translated the book Course of Analysis of the Infinitely Small by the Belgian mathematician Charles-Jean de La Vallée Poussin into Russian, with which he was also in correspondence.

Fichtenholz's main areas of work were connected with the theory of real-valued functions, functional analysis and mathematical methodology. At the Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics at the University of Leningrad, he founded a school for the theory of real-valued functions (which went back to his diploma thesis on the theory of the integral in 1918) and (from 1934 in collaboration with his student Leonid Kantorowitsch ) functional analysis . In his teaching activity in St. Petersburg, which spanned almost four decades, almost all of the important analysts were among his students. Fichtenholz is best known as the author of the three-volume textbook Differential and Integral Calculus , which arose from three decades of lecturing. He completed it in World War II.

He was known for his elaborately elaborated lectures (both for students and in schools), his wit and conscientiousness, but also for severity: when he caught Boris Spassky doing chess problems in the lecture, he expelled him from the lecture hall in front of 200 students .

He received the title of Meritorious Scientist of the Russian SFSR and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor .

His doctoral students include Isidor Natanson , Leonid Kantorowitsch and Boris Vulikh .

Fonts

3rd volume of the textbook "Differential and Integral Calculus"
  • Differential and integral calculus. 3 volumes (= university books for mathematics . Vol. 61–63), 14th edition. Harri Deutsch, 2006, ISBN 3-8171-1418-4 . (first Russian 1947 to 1949)
  • Infinite Series: Rudiments. Gordon and Breach, 1970.
  • Infinite Series: Ramifications. Gordon and Breach, 1970.
  • Functional Series: Rudiments. Gordon and Breach, 1970.
  • Fundamentals of mathematical analysis. 2 volumes, 1960, 1964 (Russian)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gregor Michailowitsch Fichtenholz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ GG Lorentz Mathematics and Politics in the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953 , J. Approx. Theory, 116, 2002, 169
personal data
SURNAME Spruce wood, Gregor Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spruce wood, grigori; Фихтенгольц, Григорий Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1959
Place of death Leningrad