Friedrich Pfeiffer (mathematician)
Friedrich Georg Pfeiffer (born May 2, 1883 in Augsburg , † December 21, 1961 in Stuttgart ) was a German applied mathematician.
Life
Pfeiffer studied from 1902 at the TH Munich and also at the University of Göttingen . In 1905 he passed his teaching examination in Munich and became an assistant at the Mathematical Institute of the TH Munich. In 1907 he received his doctorate there and in 1908 went to the Institute for Applied Mathematics in Göttingen and in 1910 to the TH Danzig , where he completed his habilitation in the same year. In 1911 he became a private lecturer at the Friedrichs University in Halle . He participated in the First World War as a volunteer . In 1916 he became an associate professor and in 1922 a full professor at the University of Heidelberg ( he had refused a call to RWTH Aachen University in 1921). From 1922 until his retirement in 1951 he was full professor at the TH Stuttgart .
He dealt with numerical mathematics and mathematical problems in mechanics.
Since 1925 he was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
He was born in 1921 with Frieda Clara. Brauer married, daughter of the mathematics professor in Karlsruhe Ernst Brauer (1851–1934).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ for example article Elastokinetik in Hans Geiger, Karl Scheel (editor) Handbuch der Physik , Volume 6, 1928
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfeiffer, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfeiffer, Friedrich Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1961 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |