Fritz Oberhettinger

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Fritz Oberhettinger (born February 24, 1911 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer , † June 2, 1993 in Seal Rock , Oregon ) was a German-American mathematician, known for table works on special functions .

Life

Oberhettinger passed his state examination in Breslau in 1936 and received his doctorate in 1942 under Wilhelm Magnus at the Humboldt University in Berlin ( on the effect of a completely conductive cylinder in the radiation field of a dipole ). In 1946 he completed his habilitation in Mainz, where he initially worked as an assistant from 1946 and then as a lecturer until his emigration in 1948. During the war he was already editing tables with Magnus on special functions in mathematical physics. After the war, he followed Magnus as an employee of the Bateman Manuscript Project at Caltech in the USA, which was headed by Arthur Erdélyi and published tables and formulas on integral transformations and special functions. He was part of the Bateman Manuscript Project from 1948 to 1951 . He was then a professor at the American University in Washington, DC From 1958 he was a professor at Oregon State University .

Fonts

  • with Magnus: Formulas and theorems for the special functions of mathematical physics, 1943, 1948 (English translation New York, Chelsea 1949), 3rd edition with Raj Pal Soni: "Formulas and theorems for the special functions of mathematical physics", Springer 1966
  • with Magnus: Applications of elliptical functions in physics and technology, Springer 1949 (basic teaching of mathematical sciences)
  • Tables for Fourier transforms, Springer 1957, Tables of Fourier transforms and Fourier transforms of distributions, Springer 1990
  • Tables of Mellin Transforms, Springer 1974
  • Tables of Bessel Transforms, Springer 1972
  • with Larry Badii: Tables of Laplace Transforms, Springer 1973
  • Fourier transforms of distributions and their inverses, Academic Press 1973
  • Fourier expansions- a collection of formulas, Academic Press 1973
  • Bateman Manuscript Project: Higher transcendental functions, 3 volumes, McGraw Hill 1953 to 1955, Krieger 1981
  • Bateman Manuscript Project: Tables of Integral Transforms, 2 volumes, McGraw Hill 1954

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV data from List of University Officers Oregon State University 1966
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Higher Transcendental Functions , Volume 1, 1953, foreword
personal data
SURNAME Oberhettinger, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen-Buer
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1993
Place of death Seal Rocks , Oregon