Alfred Tauber

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Alfred Tauber (born on November 5, 1866 in Pressburg , Kingdom of Hungary ; died on July 26, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian mathematician .

Life

Tauber was a student of Emil Weyr in Vienna . In 1891 he published his habilitation thesis in the monthly notebooks for mathematics and physics and received the title "Privatdocent" and taught on partial differential equations . At the same time he worked from 1892 to 1908 as chief mathematician for the "kk private life insurance company Phönix". During this time he published ten articles in the above-mentioned series, including his most important works on potential theory and series . In his habilitation thesis from 1891 he was already concerned with the Hilbert transformation for periodic functions (13 years before Hilbert; from 1924 it was examined in more detail by Hardy). The paper published in 1897 with the title A proposition from the theory of infinite series formed a new direction in analysis , which is now called " Tauber theorems " or " Tauber's theorems " according to GH Hardy and JE Littlewood , they are inverse clauses the limitation process or summation process.

Tauber received a professorship at the University of Vienna in 1901 and in the same year also took over the chair of actuarial mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology as an "honorary doc" . He retired in 1933, but continued to give lectures at both universities until 1938.

On June 28, 1942, Tauber was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he died on July 26.

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literature

  • Christa Binder : Alfred Tauber (1866–1942). An Austrian mathematician. In: Yearbook overviews of mathematics. Vol. 17, Bibliographisches Institut AG, Mannheim 1984, 151-166.
  • Karl Sigmund : Failing Phoenix: Tauber, Helly, and Viennese Life Insurance. In: The Mathematical Intelligencer. Vol. 26, No. 2, Springer-Verlag, New York 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frederick W. King: Hilbert Transforms. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-88762-5 , page 3.

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