Felix Bernstein

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Felix Bernstein

Felix Bernstein (born February 14, 1878 in Halle (Saale) ; † December 3, 1956 in Zurich ) was a German mathematician.

Life

German savings premium bond for 1000 marks dated December 29, 1919

Bernstein, son of the physiologist Julius Bernstein , graduated from high school in Halle at Easter 1896 . He then studied with Georg Cantor in Halle. As a 19-year-old there, in 1897, he succeeded in proving Cantor's equivalence theorem about the power of sets ten years earlier , which was later named after him ( Cantor-Bernstein-Schröder theorem ). He then studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen with Felix Klein and David Hilbert , where he wrote his doctoral thesis on set theory .

In 1903 Felix Bernstein completed his habilitation at the Friedrichs University in Halle . His inaugural lecture dealt with mathematical problems of the Kant-Laplace theory for the formation of the planetary system . As a private lecturer, Bernstein mainly dealt with pure mathematics, such as the properties of circles or spherical surfaces. From 1907 to 1934 he taught in Göttingen, since 1921 as a professor. In 1918 he founded the Institute for Mathematical Statistics in Göttingen and gave lectures on biomathematics and insurance statistics .

In 1919, Bernstein was appointed Reich Commissioner for Bonds . In this function, he issued the German Sparpämien-Anleihe in the same year . In 1924 he clarified the inheritance of blood groups by means of statistical analysis . Since he was Jewish, he was deprived of the chair in 1934 during the Nazi era . He emigrated to the USA. After the Second World War , amber returned to Europe. At the age of 78 he succumbed to carcinoma.

His estate is kept by the Central Archives of German Mathematicians' bequests at the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen .

Honors

  • Cantor-Bernstein-Schröder theorem
  • In 2014 the University of Göttingen opened the Felix Bernstein Institute for Mathematical Statistics in the Biosciences (FBMS) named after him .

Publications

  • Investigations from set theory . Mathematische Annalen, Springer, Berlin 1905 , (dissertation); New edition January 2010, ISBN 1-141-37026-3
  • German Spar-Prämien-Anleihe 1919 in question and answer as well as examples presented in a popular way . Reimer, Berlin 1919
  • The Academic Professions / Volume 5 - The Statistician and Insurance Officer . 1920
  • Variation and heredity statistics . Gebr. Borntraeger, Berlin 1929

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.igs-halle.de/igs/cms/front_content.php?idart=1634
  2. ^ A b Felix Bernstein in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis, Biographical Online Lexicon of Professors at the University of Halle
  3. ^ Catalogus Professorum Halensis of the University of Halle
  4. ↑ Press release No. 232/2014 of October 10, 2014, homepage of the University of Göttingen
personal data
SURNAME Bernstein, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1956
Place of death Zurich