Dietrich Voelker

Dietrich H. Voelker (born November 8, 1911 in Berlin ; † August 31, 1999 in Tenerife ) was a German mathematician and professor .

Life

Dietrich Voelker, son of the Post President Heinrich Voelker, attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Karlsruhe . At the local university , he then studied mathematics and joined the fraternity Teutonia . In November 1935, he resigned his academic teaching state exam from before becoming a trainee teacher at the Helmholtz Oberrealschule Karlsruhe. In May 1937 he passed his pedagogical exam and then became a study assessor in the Baden school service. In 1938 Voelker became a research assistant at the Mathematics Institute of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1939 he completed the Rigorosum and a year later the doctorate .

During the Second World War Voelker undertook mathematical tests for the Messerschmitt company . He moved to Buenos Aires and was a math assessor in the military industry from 1949 to 1950 . He then became professor and dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of San Luis . Voelker later became a professor at Clarkson University in Potsdam (New York) .

Voelker was known for his contributions in the field of integral transformations . His most important work is The Two-Dimensional Laplace Transformation (1950). He was also a member of the German Mathematicians Association , the Unión Matemática Argentina and the American Mathematical Society .

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UNESCO : Científicos de la Argentina , 1960.
R. Tobies : Biographical Lexicon in Mathematics for PhDs , 2006 ( reference )

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SURNAME	Voelker, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Voelker, Dietrich H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	August 31, 1999
Place of death	Tenerife