Fritz Peter (mathematician)

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Fritz Peter (* 1899 ; † 1949 ) was a German educator , physicist and mathematician .

Peter received his doctorate in 1923 at the University of Göttingen (at the 1st Physics Institute headed by Robert Wichard Pohl ). He became a teacher and later a senior teacher at the Schloss Salem School .

He is known for Peter-Weyl's 1926 theorem (published 1927) with his teacher Hermann Weyl . After Thomas W. Hawkins , the work with Weyl and a 1923 thesis on his dissertation are the only publications by Peter.

Fonts

  • with Hermann Weyl: "The completeness of the primitive representations of a closed continuous group", Mathematische Annalen, Volume 97, 1927, pp. 737–755 (dated July 24, 1926)

literature

  • Thomas Hawkins: Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups, Springer 2000, p. 502

Individual evidence

  1. This resulted in the publication: Refractive indices and absorption constants of diamonds between and 226 , Zeitschrift für Physik, Volume 15, 1923, pp. 358–368. It is explicitly stated there that it is an extract from his Göttingen dissertation.
  2. Weyl himself describes him as one of his students, Hawkins, p. 502, Weyl, Sur la representation des groupes continus, L'Enseignement mathematique, Volume 26, 1927, p. 233
  3. The place of residence is given for F. Peter Karlsruhe