Ernst Robert Reifenberg
Ernst Robert Reifenberg , called Peter Reifenberg, (born October 28, 1928 in Berlin ; † June 23, 1964 in the Dolomites ) was a British mathematician who dealt with the calculus of variations and geometric dimension theory.
Reifenberg went with his parents (his father Heinz was an architect, his mother Elise a writer with the stage name Gabriele Tergit ) as Jews fleeing the National Socialists in 1933 via Czechoslovakia to Palestine. Reifenberg went to school in Tel Aviv, was with his grandparents in Berlin in 1937 and in England from 1938. He showed a talent for chess and math at an early age and won scholarships to St. Paul's School in London (where Ioan James was a classmate) and in 1946 to Trinity College, Cambridge University . After he distinguished himself in the Tripos (Part 3) in 1949 he became a research student of Abram Samoilowitsch Besikowitsch . In 1951, his work on the area of surfaces earned him the appointment of a Fellow at Trinity College. In 1952 he was at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1954 he became a lecturer at the University of Bristol , where he became a reader in 1961. 1959/60 he was at Oregon State University and in the summer of 1963 at Brown University . He was an avid mountaineer and died in 1964 from falling rocks while climbing in the Dolomites.
In 1960 he gave a solution to the general plateau problem with new methods (for any topological gender and also for non-orientable surfaces).
literature
- Obituary by JC Shepherdson, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 40, 1965, 370-377
Individual evidence
- ^ Solution of the Plateau Problem for m-dimensional surfaces of varying topological type, Acta Mathematica, 104, 1960, No. 1-2, 1-92
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reifenberg, Ernst Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reifenberg, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1964 |
| Place of death | Dolomites |