Arnold Schmidt (mathematician)

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Autumn 1949 in Oberwolfach (3rd from right)

Hermann Arnold Schmidt (born July 11, 1902 in Remscheid , † September 16, 1967 in Marburg ) was a German mathematician who dealt with basic mathematical research and logic.

life and work

Schmidt, the son of a businessman, studied mathematics from 1921 in Heidelberg , Munich , Bonn and at the University of Göttingen , where he was David Hilbert's assistant from 1927 to 1936 , and in whose new edition of the fundamentals of geometry he played a major role in 1927. He received his doctorate in 1934 with Hilbert (Deriving the mirroring from plane motion, Mathematische Annalen, Vol. 109, p. 538). From 1935 he was at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1937 and became a private lecturer in 1939. In 1940 he was at the Babelsberg observatory and from 1943 to 1945 he taught descriptive geometry at the University of Berlin . He then completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen and became an adjunct professor there in 1946. From 1950 he was a full professor for mathematics and mathematical logic at the University of Marburg, where he also became director of the Mathematical Institute. In 1959 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1962 he founded the German Association for Mathematical Logic and Basic Research in the Exact Sciences (DVMLG) , of which he was chairman until his death. In 1967 he retired.

In the 1940s, Schmidt expanded the group-theoretical treatment of the foundation of elementary geometry (initiated by Gerhard Thomsen , but only treated by him in the case of Euclidean geometry) to include absolute geometry .

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source

  • Renate Tobies : Biographical Lexicon in Mathematics for PhDs , 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 214.
  2. ^ Arnold Schmidt The duality of incidence and perpendicularity in Absolute Geometry , Mathematische Annalen, Volume 118, 1943, pp. 609-625
  3. ↑ Schmidt on the group of movements of the plane elliptical geometry , Journal for pure and applied mathematics, Volume 186, 1949, pp. 230-240
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Hermann Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1967
Place of death Marburg