Alfred Loewy
Alfred Loewy (born June 20, 1873 in Rawitsch near Posen , † January 25, 1935 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German mathematician .
Life
Loewy, who comes from a strictly Orthodox Jewish family, attended the universities of Breslau , Munich , Berlin and Göttingen from 1891 to 1895 . In 1894 he received his doctorate under Ferdinand Lindemann at the University of Munich ( on the transformation of a square shape in itself with applications to line and spherical geometry ). In 1897 he completed his habilitation at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where he became associate professor in 1902, honorary professor in 1916 and professor in 1919. In 1933 he was forced into retirement by the National Socialists . Loewy had problems with his eyes and had been unilateral since 1916 and completely blind after a failed operation in 1928.
Loewy worked on the linear substitution groups, the reduction of algebraic equations and Galois theory , the theory of linear homogeneous differential equations (where he applied methods of group theory) and Stieltjes integrals . He also dealt with actuarial mathematics .
His doctoral students include Wolfgang Krull and Friedrich Karl Schmidt and his students Ernst Witt , Bernhard Neumann , Richard Brauer , Reinhold Baer .
He was the uncle by marriage of the mathematician Adolf Fraenkel , whom he systematically promoted.
In 1912 Loewy was appointed a member of the Leopoldina ; In 1922 he became an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , which honored him in 1933 on the occasion of his 60th birthday with a festschrift.
In April 2003 the artist Gunter Demnig relocated Stolpersteine in memory of Alfred Loewy and his wife Therese at the former residential address Reichsgrafenstraße 14 in Freiburg .
Fonts
- Algebra Textbook , 1915
- Basics of Arithmetic , 1915
- Mathematics of Money and Payments , 1920
- Actuarial Mathematics , 1903
literature
- Helmuth Gericke: Loewy, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 114 ( digitized version ).
- Gottwald, Ilgauds, Schlote: Lexicon of important mathematicians , 1990
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925).
- Volker R. Remmert: On the history of mathematics in Freiburg. Alfred Loewy (1873–1935): Sudden end of late splendor. In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 129 (1995), pp. 81-102
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Alfred Loewy. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the theory and application of the intensities in actuarial mathematics . Heidelberg, 1917.
- ↑ Cf. Gabriele Dörflinger: Mathematics in the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . 2014. pp. 49–52.
- ↑ Alfred Loewy biography on stolpersteine-in-freiburg.de , accessed on May 27, 2019
- ↑ Therese Loewy's biography on stolpersteine-in-freiburg.de , accessed on May 27, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Loewy, Alfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1873 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rawitsch |
DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1935 |
Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |