Georg Rost

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Georg Rost (born February 26, 1870 in Würzburg , † September 3, 1958 ibid) was a German mathematician and university professor of mathematics and astronomy.

Rost studied at the University of Würzburg with the Riemann student Friedrich Prym , with whom he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate ( studies on the most general linear substitution, the powers of which form a finite group ) and qualified as a professor in 1901 (theory of Riemann's theta function). In 1903 he became associate professor and on September 16, 1906 full professor in Würzburg as the successor to Aurel Voss . From 1918 to 1920 he was rector of the university and from 1920 to 1935 director of the administrative committee, where he made services to the expansion of the university. In 1950 this was recognized by his appointment as an honorary senator and in 1921 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the medical faculty. From 1933 to 1935 he was Vice-Rector and at this time was in conflict with the National Socialists, although overall he was rather apolitical. He retired on March 31, 1935.

From 1923 he was Privy Councilor (Privy Councilor) and in 1940 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . On the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1940 he received the city plaque in bronze from the city of Würzburg.

From 1907 he was also in charge of the university's observatory (and later, with a doctorate in astronomy , was professor of astronomy ), which was rebuilt in 1927 thanks to a generous donation.

He owed his calling primarily to his teacher's development of the theory of Prym's functions. Together with Prym in 1911 he published the book Theory of Prym's Functions of the First Order following the Creations of Riemann , and after his retirement he continued to work on a sequel on Prym's higher-order functions. The manuscript burned in 1945 during a bomb attack on Würzburg.

Otto Haupt is one of his doctoral students .

In 1940, in honor of Rost, at the suggestion of Otto Volk, the small planet discovered on the Königstuhl in Heidelberg was named TF (1440) Rostia in 1937 .

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Vollrath Mathematics and Physics in Würzburg in the first half of the 20th century , PDF
  • Observation Circular of Astronomical News , Volume 22, No. 1, 1940 January 6, p. 1.
  • Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: List of lectures for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 14.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1273, note 60.
personal data
SURNAME Rust, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1958
Place of death Wurzburg