Axel Schur

Ernst Viktor Axel Schur (born May 9, 1891 in Dorpat , Estonia , † April 5, 1930 in Bonn ) was a German mathematician and university professor .

Life

Axel Schur, the son of the mathematician Friedrich Schur , fought in the First World War from 1915 to 1918 as an army soldier. He was then in 1921 under the supervision of his doctor father Emil Hilb at the University of Würzburg Dr. phil. PhD . His dissertation from 1920 was entitled “On the development of arbitrary functions according to solutions of systems of linear differential equations” (Springer Verlag, Berlin 1920).

From 1921 to 1922 he was an assistant at the Mathematical Department of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1923 he taught as a private lecturer for geometry at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1927 he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn as a private lecturer for geometry and as an assistant at the mathematical seminar .

Publications (selection)

• About the Schwarz extremal property of the circle under the curves of constant curvature . In: Mathematische Annalen 83, 1921, ISSN  0025-5831 , pp. 143-148, digitized .

literature

• Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: Ostdeutsche Familienkunde 55, 2007, Heft 3, ISSN  0472-190X , pp. 109–120.
• Werner Egloff: A geometric proof of a proposition by Axel Schur. Dedicated to Professor W. Süss on the occasion of his 60th birthday . In: Archiv der Mathematik 6, 1955, Issue 4, ISSN  0003-889X , pp. 281-283.

Web links

• Literature by and about Axel Schur in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reminder of the University of Bonn on the 75th anniversary of the death (2005) of Axel Schur

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Fritsch:  Schur, Friedrich Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 759 ( digitized version ).