Arnold Walfisz
Arnold Walfisz (born July 2, 1892 in Warsaw , † May 29, 1962 in Tbilisi ) was a Polish mathematician . His focus was number theory and algebra .
Life
After graduating from high school in Warsaw, he studied from 1909 to 1914 and from 1918 to 1921 in Munich , Berlin , Heidelberg and Göttingen , where he obtained his doctorate under Edmund Landau in 1921 ( On the summation functions of some Dirichletscher series , 56 pages). From 1922 to 1927 Walfisz lived in Wiesbaden . In 1927 he returned to Warsaw, became a research assistant at the university (from his habilitation in 1930 as a private lecturer) and, since this activity was unpaid, worked for the insurance company "Europa". In 1935 he founded the magazine Acta Arithmetica with Salomon Lubelski . In 1936 he went to Tbilisi and became a mathematics professor at the university there . Walfisz is the author of around 100 mathematical works, including the books listed under “Works”. He has also edited two books of Edmund Landau's writings.
In 1936 he proved Siegel-Walfisz's theorem .
Walfisz also took part in chess tournaments (2nd / 3rd place in 1912 in side tournament A in Breslau , participation in 1914 in the tournament in Mannheim that was not played to an end).
Works
- Pell's equation (Russian original: Уравнение Пелля ), Tbilisi, 1952
- Grid points in multidimensional spheres , Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Monografi Matematyczne, vol. 33. Warszawa, 1957, online
- Weyl's exponential sums in modern number theory , VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1963
literature
- Ekkehard Krätzel , Christoph Lamm: From Wiesbaden to Tiflis - The checkered life story of the number theorist Arnold Walfisz , Communications of the German Mathematicians Association, Volume 21 (1), 2013, pp. 42–51, doi : 10.1515 / dmvm-2013-0018
- Sophie Goetzel-Leviathan (née Walfisz): The War from the Inside , Paul Lazarus Foundation, Wiesbaden, 2011
- AJ Gillam: Mannheim 1914 and the Interned Russians , The Chess Player, Nottingham, 2014
- Paul Schellenberg et al. (Ed.): The 16th, 17th and 18th Congress of the German Chess Federation. Düsseldorf 1908, Hamburg 1910, Breslau 1912 , 1984 ( Tschaturanga book series )
Web links
- Short biography at DMV
- Biography and list of publications in tabular form
- Short biography with picture from Acta Arithmetica , 1964 (PDF file; 4.23 MB)
- Overview of his work from Acta Arithmetica , 1964 (PDF file; 2.31 MB)
- Entry in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ See literature (Gillam and Schellenberg).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walfisz, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1962 |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |