Erich Göllnitz

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Rudolf Erich Göllnitz (born May 28, 1893 in Chemnitz , † June 19, 1966 in Hamburg ) was a German mathematician.

Life

The son of a musician from the city chapel Chemnitz studied after attending the higher boys' school and the royal high school in Chemnitz in Berlin and above all Göttingen with Constantin Carathéodory , Felix Klein , David Hilbert , Edmund Landau , Max Planck , Peter Debye , Otto Wallach and Edmund Husserl . Above all, Landau's analytical number theory inspired him so much that he continued to work with it after the state examination for the higher teaching post in March 1917 while teaching at secondary schools in Vogtland and until 1945 in Chemnitz.

Through his early membership in the German Mathematicians Association (DMV) and later in the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) as well as his extensive correspondence with other mathematicians, he tried to keep up with science in addition to his school work. Heinrich Behnke expressed himself about him with the words: "I also know the love with which he was attached to our science". Göllnitz was allowed to publish his first work, Contributions to Quaternion Theory, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1928 on the recommendation of Lothar von Schrutka . He published in the newspaper Deutsche Mathematik .

After the end of the Second World War , Erich Göllnitz was employed as a civil engineering worker, which did not prevent him from driving (sometimes by hitchhiking ) to the French zone to the DMV meeting in Tübingen in September 1946 to give a lecture there. After working as a freelance scientist, bank clerk and in the meantime working on distance learning at the TH Dresden, Erich Göllnitz worked from October 1951 to September 1954 as a lecturer in mathematics at the college for heavy engineering and electrical engineering in Chemnitz / Karl-Marx-Stadt.

In 1954 he was appointed director of the Institute for Mathematics at the newly founded University of Mechanical Engineering , first as a lecturer and from October 1957 as a professor , where he was also Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. In doing so, he secured teaching and research in mathematics with initially modest means immediately after the university was founded.

Even after his retirement in 1960, Erich Göllnitz still held lectures at the TH Karl-Marx-Stadt .

Publications

  • Contributions to quaternion theory. in: Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences Vienna. Volume 137, 1928, pp. 157-188, PDF on ZOBODAT
  • About the quaternion functions log and arctan. in: Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences Vienna. Volume 137, 1928, pp. 351-362.
  • Some calculation errors in Gauss' works. in: Annual report DMV. Volume 46, 1936, pp. 19-21.
  • Via the Gaussian representation of the functions sin lemn x and cos lemn x as quotients of infinite products. in: German Mathematics. Volume 2, 1937, pp. 417-420.
  • with Herberg Najuch, Siegfried Hösel: differential and integral calculus for technical schools in mechanical engineering. Leipzig: Fachbuchverlag, 1956, 4th edition 1960.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Biography on tu-chemnitz.de, accessed on October 8, 2016
  2. ↑ [2] www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on October 8, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Göllnitz, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göllnitz, Rudolf Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1966
Place of death Hamburg