Auguste Dick

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Auguste Franziska Dick , née Kraus, (born August 28, 1910 , † 1993 ) was an Austrian mathematician and teacher.

After graduating from high school in Vienna in 1929, Dick studied mathematics and physics in Vienna from 1929 to 1934, among others with Philipp Furtwängler , Hans Hahn and Adalbert Duschk . She received her doctorate in 1934 with a thesis on differential geometry ( About hypersurface strips ), and passed her teaching exams in the same year. In 1936 she received a teaching qualification for shorthand. She taught at various schools and also at the Leybold company in Cologne. After that she taught in Vienna as a student councilor and from 1963 as a senior student councilor. In 1968 she became director of the Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium for girls in Vienna III. From the beginning of the 1960s she also dealt with the history of science, where she was supported and stimulated by Edmund Hlawka . In 1972 she retired. She had had the title of court councilor since 1973. She was an expert on old shorthand techniques.

She wrote the basic biography of the mathematician Emmy Noether , who played a central role in the development of modern algebra in Göttingen from the 1920s until her forced emigration in the early 1930s. To this end, she undertook intensive research and maintained international correspondence, for example with Olga Taussky-Todd , who temporarily supervised Hans Hahn's seminar during her student days, in which Dick took part, and with Helmut Hasse , who gave her an insight into his correspondence with Emmy Noether granted. Dick was involved in the processing of Erwin Schrödinger's academic papers (partly in shorthand) at the Central Physics Library in Vienna. She also published, for example, about Ludwig Boltzmann and organized an exhibition about him in Vienna and Rome (University La Sapienza 1989) with Gabriele Kerber. She also organized an exhibition on Wilhelm Wirtinger (with Gabriela Stöckl).

In the early 1970s she was involved in Max Pinl's publications on mathematicians persecuted by National Socialists at German-speaking universities (sections Vienna, Prague).

Dick was buried at the Baumgartner Friedhof (group 20, number 348).

Fonts

  • Emmy Noether 1882–1935, Birkhäuser, 1981 (English translation, with Emmy Noether's list of publications, list of her doctoral students, obituary by Hermann Weyl , among others ), review by Hans Zassenhaus, Bull. AMS 1982
    • The German-language original appeared as Supplement 13 of the Elements of Mathematics in 1970
  • with Wolfgang Kerber, Gabriele Kerber, Nandor Balasz Documents, materials and pictures for the 100th anniversary of Erwin Schrödinger's birthday , Fassbaender, Vienna 1987
  • Franz Mertens 1840-1927: a biographical study , reports of the mathematical-statistical section in the Graz Research Center, Volume 151, 1981
  • Mathematics and the Girls , Bundesrealgymnasium für Mädchen, Vienna, Annual Report 1962/63, pp. 4–10

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Published in Monthly Bulletin for Mathematics and Physics, Volume 41, 1934, s. 424
  2. ^ Leopold Butterer, Karl Sigmund (editor) Hans Hahn. Collected papers , Volume 3, Springer Verlag, 2003, p. 571, memories of Olga Taussky-Todd
  3. ^ Biographical note in Dieter Flamm (editor) Ludwig Boltzmann-Henriette von Aigentler. Correspondence , Böhlau Verlag 1995, p. 12