Detlef Cauer
Eduard Ludwig Detlef Cauer (born July 14, 1889 in Kiel , † April 26, 1918 in Kemmel ) was a German mathematician .
Detlef Cauer, the son of the classical philologist Paul Cauer , was born in Kiel. His family moved to Flensburg in 1896, to Düsseldorf in 1898 and to Münster in 1905, where his father worked as a provincial school councilor and honorary professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University .
Detlef Cauer attended the Royal Gymnasium in Flensburg, the Municipal Gymnasium and Realgymnasium Düsseldorf and the Royal Schiller Gymnasium in Münster, where he graduated from high school in 1908. He then studied mathematics at the universities of Kiel , Berlin , Münster and Göttingen (from 1910). Here he worked for Edmund Landau and became his private assistant in 1912.
1914 Cauer was with a dissertation on the Pfeiffersche method in the field of analytic number theory Ph.D. , of Landau and Hermann Schwarz was supervised. The dissertation was awarded the grade very good . At the same time, Cauer created an article for the revision of the Realencyclopadie of classical antiquity .
After receiving his doctorate, Cauer was drafted into the First World War. He served on the Western Front and fell on April 26, 1918 while taking the Kemmel Mountain in Belgium. His fellow student Erich Kamke dedicated his dissertation to the memory of Cauer: Generalizations of the Waring-Hilbert Theorem .
literature
- New applications of Pfeiffer's method for estimating number-theoretic functions , dissertation, Göttingen 1914 digitized
Web links
- Short biography of Detlef Cauer at the German Mathematicians Association
- Mathematics Genealogy Project
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| SURNAME | Cauer, Detlef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cauer, Eduard Ludwig Detlef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1918 |
| Place of death | Kemmel |