Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer

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Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer (born July 21, 1924 in Nuremberg ) is an American mathematician with contributions to differential geometry , topology , algebraic geometry and convex geometry . He also wrote books on Jewish sacred literature.

Heinrich Guggenheimer is the son of Marguerite Bloch and Siegfried Guggenheimer . He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and completed his diploma studies in 1947 and his doctoral studies in 1951. The title of his dissertation was “On complex-analytic manifolds with Kähler's metric”. It was published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici : 25: 257-97. Guggenheimer worked at the Hebrew University as a lecturer from 1954–6. He was a professor at Bar Ilan University from 1956–9. In 1959 he immigrated to the United States, where he received citizenship in 1965. He got his first position in the USA as an associate professor at Washington State University . After a year he moved to the University of Minnesota , where he was appointed professor in 1962. In Minnesota he wrote Differential Geometry (1963). Guggenheimer published Plane Geometry and its Groups (Holden Day) in 1967 , and moved to New York City to teach at Polytechnic University , now New York University's Tandon School of Engineering . In 1977 he published Applicable Geometry: Global and Local Convexity .

Until 1995 Guggenheimer published numerous papers in mathematical journals. He supervised the dissertations of six students, two in Minnesota and four in New York. Guggenheimer also made contributions to the literature on Judaism . In 1966 he wrote "Logical problems in Jewish tradition". The following year he published "Magic and Dialect" in Diogenes (15: 80–6). Guggenheimer published his The Scholar's Haggadah in 1995 . From 2000 to 2015 he published seventeen volumes of an edition on the Jerusalem Talmud .

family

Heinrich Guggenheimer and Eva Auguste Horowitz married on June 6, 1947. Together they wrote Jewish Family Names and their Origins: an Etymological Dictionary (1992). They have two sons, Michael and Tobias IS, and two daughters, Esther Furman and Hanna Y. Guggenheimer.

literature

  • Allen G. Debus , "Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer", Who's Who in Science , 1968.
  • Heinrich Guggenheimer , Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  • "Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter" in American Men and Women of Science , 25th edition, Gale, 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, Huntington NY
  2. ^ Ph. Longworth ed. (1966) Confrontations with Judaism
  3. ↑ Jason Aronson, Inc .; Bilingual edition (December 1, 1998)
  4. ^ Studia Judaica, De Gruyter
  5. ↑ KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-88125-297-2 , 882 pages. Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician with contributions to differential geometry, topology, algebraic geometry and convex geometry
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg