František Wolf
František Wolf (* 1904 in Prostějov ; † August 12, 1989 in Berkeley (California) ) was a Czech mathematician who dealt with analysis.
Wolf was the son of a cabinet maker. He studied physics at Charles University in Prague and mathematics at Masaryk University in Brno, where he received his doctorate under Otakar Borůvka in 1928 (contribution à la théorie des series trigonométriques généralisées et des séries à fonctions orthogonales). He taught as a grammar school teacher and was from 1937 private lecturer at the Charles University. Then he was in Cambridge with Godfrey Harold Hardy and John Edensor Littlewood and published on function theory and harmonic analysis. After the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, he went to the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm in 1938 and stayed in Sweden until 1941, where he worked for the Czech resistance. He then went to the USA, taught for a year at Macalester College in Saint Paul in Minnesota and was from 1942 instructor at the University of California, Berkeley and later a professor. Among other things, he dealt with the perturbation theory of operators and was significantly involved in bringing Tosio Kato to the University of Berkeley. In 1972 he retired. In retirement he helped set up the University of Valle in Guatemala.
In 1951 he founded the Pacific Journal of Mathematics with Edwin Beckenbach .
Wolf played the piano and violin and was an amateur botanist.
Fonts (selection)
- The Poisson integral. A study in the uniqueness of harmonic functions, Acta Mathematica, Volume 74, 1941, pp. 65-100
- Contributions to a theory of summability of trigonometric integrals, University of California Press 1947
- Analytic perturbation of operators in Banach spaces, Mathematische Annalen, Volume 124, 1952, pp. 317-333
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : František Wolf. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Obituary by William Bade, Murray Protter, Angus Taylor
Individual evidence
- ↑ František Wolf in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, František |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prostějov |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1989 |
| Place of death | Berkeley, California |