Hans Salié
Oscar Hans Emil Salié (born April 6, 1902 in Leipzig ; † August 1, 1978 there ) was a German mathematician and science historian . He was a full professor of mathematics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and editor of the biographical-literary concise dictionary on the history of the exact natural sciences , founded by Johann Christian Poggendorff .
Life
Hans Salié was the son of a businessman. He attended the Oberrealschule Nord (today: Leibnizschule ) in Leipzig and studied mathematics and physics at the university there from the summer semester of 1921, under Otto Hölder and Leon Lichtenstein , among others . Since his father died prematurely due to an injury in the First World War , he had to finance his studies himself by working at a bank and therefore could only attend lectures in the evening.
After the teaching state examination in the subjects of pure and applied mathematics and physics in 1925, he taught mathematics and physics at the Gaudig School in Leipzig from 1926 as a student trainee, from 1928 as a study assistant and from 1930 to 1945 as a teacher . In addition to his teaching activities, he dealt in particular with analytical number theory. Salié passed his rigorosum in mathematics, physics and philosophy on February 26, 1932 with the grade very good and was then awarded a doctorate by Otto Hölder on the basis of his work on the subject of estimating the Fourier coefficients of entire module forms .
After participating in the Second World War and being released from school, he temporarily worked as a machine operator. In 1949 he went to the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig as a research assistant in the editorial team of Poggendorff . From 1956 until a few years before his death, Salié worked as head of the Poggendorff editorial team on the biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists. Destroyed by the air raids on Leipzig , the archive had to be completely rebuilt in the post-war period . From 1952 to 1955 Salié held a teaching position at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Leipzig. He completed his habilitation in 1954 and received a professorship with a teaching position. From 1959 until his retirement in 1967 he was a full professor for pure mathematics at the Karl Marx University with a full teaching assignment.
Scientific work
Salié dealt in particular with analytical number theory and Kloosterman sums, special exponential sums with which he estimated the Fourier coefficients of entire module forms (and thus improved an estimate by Hendrik Kloosterman himself in his dissertation ). He also dealt with quadratic remainders , Dedekind sums and abundant numbers . The biographical-literary concise dictionary of exact natural sciences founded by Johann Christian Pogendorff was continued under his leadership with excellent quality and was completed in 2004 as a complete work.
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literature
- Günther Eisenreich : Hans Salié. In: Herbert Beckert , Horst Schumann (Hrsg.): 100 Years of Mathematical Seminar at the Karl Marx University of Leipzig. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1981, pp. 260–264.
- Renate Tobies : Biographical lexicon in mathematics for post-doctoral students. Rauner, Augsburg 2006.
Web links
- Hans Salié in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Hans Salié in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Salié in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Günter Eisenreich: Hans Salié , p. 264
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salié, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salié, Oscar Hans Emil (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1978 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |