Georg Landsberg

Georg Landsberg (born January 30, 1865 in Breslau , † September 14, 1912 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician .

Landsberg, son of Bernhard Landsberg and Philippina Buttermilch, grew up in Breslau, studied in Breslau and Leipzig from 1883 to 1889 and was awarded a doctorate in Breslau in 1890. phil. PhD. He then did his own studies in Berlin until 1893. In 1893 he completed his habilitation at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and in 1897 became an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg, and in 1904 at the University of Breslau . In the period from 1906 to 1911 he was an associate professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , and from January 1911 a full professor of mathematics.

Georg Landsberg's research dealt with algebraic functions in one and two variables, Gauss sums in number theory, theta series, calculus of variations and mechanics. He embedded the Riemann-Roch theorem in the arithmetic theory of algebraic functions, about which he wrote a well-known book with Kurt Hensel .

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literature

Günter Kern: The development of the subject of mathematics at the University of Heidelberg 1835-1914 . 1992. pp. 100-103 et al. 156. ( digital , pp. 42–43 and 133–134)

Web links

Commons : Georg Landsberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Georg Landsberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Gabriele Dörflinger: Georg Landsberg . A collection of materials (with photo) from the Historia Mathematica Heidelbergensis .
John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Georg Landsberg. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .

Remarks

↑ Kiel is sometimes incorrectly stated

personal data
SURNAME	Landsberg, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	September 14, 1912
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Kiel is sometimes incorrectly stated