Alfred Lotze (mathematician)

Paul Alfred Lotze (born December 7, 1882 in Stuttgart ; † October 3, 1964 there ) was a German mathematician.

Life

Lotze attended the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. From 1901 he studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart and the University of Tübingen . In 1906 he passed his teaching exams for mathematics and physics and was then a teacher until 1936, including at the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. He received his doctorate in 1920 in Tübingen under Gerhard Hessenberg ( The basic equation of mechanics, especially rigid bodies, newly developed according to Grassmann's point calculation at the suggestion of Rudolf Mehmke ), completed his habilitation in 1924 at the TH Stuttgart and was then a private lecturer there.

From 1930 he was a part-time associate professor and from 1940 to 1953 an extraordinary professor. He taught at the TH Stuttgart until around 1954.

Together with Christian Betsch and Hermann Rothe, he wrote the article Systems of Geometric Analysis in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences , in which, for example, Graßmann's calculus and quaternions are treated.

His son Alfred Lotze (1915–1989) was a professor of computer science.

Fonts

• The basic equations of mechanics, especially of rigid bodies, newly developed with Graßmann's point calculation , BG Teubner, Leipzig Berlin 1922
• Point and vector calculation , W. de Gruyter. Göschen's teaching library Group 1 Volume 13, Berlin Leipzig 1929
• A simple way to the differential invariants of the surface theory , annual report DMV 52, 1942, pp. 49–58
• On von Seydewitz's generation of quadrics and their m-dimensional generalization , Annual Report DMV 63, 1960, pp. 85-88

Web links

• History of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart , Bertram Maurer June 2, 1998
• DMV: Kurzbiographien - L (LO - LU) according to Renate Tobies : Biographical Lexicon in Mathematics for PhDs , Erwin Rauner, Augsburg 2006