Karl Boehm (mathematician)
Karl Boehm (also Carl Boehm , born April 29, 1873 in Mannheim , † March 7, 1958 in Kressbronn on Lake Constance ) was a German mathematician .
Life
Karl Boehm studied from the winter semester 1891/92 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and received his doctorate under Leo Koenigsberger on August 1, 1896 and habilitated on July 7, 1900 . He then worked as a private lecturer in Heidelberg and was appointed associate professor on November 25, 1904. In the winter semester of 1913/14, Karl Boehm moved to the University of Königsberg . In 1917 he was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , where he worked until his retirement in 1936. At the beginning of the Second World War he was a cryptanalyst in Inspection 7 Group IV (later Group VI ) of the Army High Command (OKH / In 7 / IV).
On March 11, 1916, Karl Boehm was accepted into the Leopoldina as a member ( matriculation no. 3373 ) . In 1929 he became an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and in 1953 an honorary citizen of the TH Karlsruhe.
His students include Maria Margarete Blass (* 1887), who received her PhD from the University of Königsberg in 1915. phil. and Wilhelm Quade , who did his doctorate with him at the TH Karlsruhe with his dissertation printed in 1932.
Fonts
- General studies on the reduction of partial differential equations to ordinary differential equations with an application to the theory of the potential equation . Teubner, Leipzig 1896 digitized
- For the integration of partial differential equations . Teubner, Leipzig 1900 digitized
- Elliptic functions . First part, Göschen, Leipzig 1908 digitized
- Axioms of arithmetic. Meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Science Class, Department A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 1911, 13th treatise, Heidelberg 1911 digitized version
literature
- Gabriele Dörflinger: Mathematics in the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, as of April 2014. P. 14 PDF
- Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, p. 24
- Heidelberg Academy of Sciences: annual booklet 1957/58, p. 41
Web links
- Carl Boehm. Member entry at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , accessed on October 17, 2018 .
- Member entry of Karl Boehm (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- Karl Boehm in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- Historia Mathematica Heidelbergensis: Mathematicians in the Heidelberg learned dictionary: Karl Boehm
References and comments
- ^ Place of death Kressbronn on Lake Constance according to Obituary in: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, annual issue 1957/58, p. 41
- ↑ Frode Weierud and Sandy Zabell : German mathematicians and cryptology in WWII. Cryptologia , 2019, doi: 10.1080 / 01611194.2019.1600076 , p. 15.
- ↑ Albert Wangerin (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 52nd issue. On commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1916, p. 42 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- ↑ Margarete Blass: About a problem of the integration of differential functions with two independent variables . Teubner, Leipzig 1915 digitized
- ^ Wilhelm Quade: About some variation approaches of the electro-dynamics of resting bodies . Noske, Leipzig 1932
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boehm, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boehm, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1958 |
| Place of death | Kressbronn on Lake Constance |