Heinz Göllnitz

Heinz Göllnitz (born June 6, 1935 in Chemnitz ) is a German mathematician and manager.

Göllnitz studied mathematics from 1953 at the University of Jena and from 1958 at the University of Göttingen , where he received his diploma in 1960 and received his doctorate there in 1964 under Max Deuring ( partitions with differential conditions ). From 1960 to 1965 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Flow Research in Göttingen with Walter Tollmien . He then worked for Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm , where he became head of the space division in 1974. In 1976 he became managing director of Hilti Development Company and in 1985 a member of the management team at Buck Chemisch-Technischen Werken in Bad Reichenhall and head of its development center. In 1989 he was technical director at BERU AG in Ludwigsburg.

He is known for the Göllnitz theorem and the Göllnitz-Gordon identities ( rediscovered independently of Basil Gordon in 1965), generalizations of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities . The work on this comes from his diploma thesis (unpublished). In Gordon and Göllnitz they were formulated as identities between partitions, but the analytical counterparts were already known to Ramanujan ( lost notebook ) and can be found in the list of generalized Rogers-Ramanujan identities by Lucy Joan Slater (1952).

Web links

• Göllnitz theorem, Mathworld

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography after Michael Toeppel, total list of members of the DMV 1980-1990, Munich 1991
2. ↑ Heinz Göllnitz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
3. ↑ The dissertation was published in J. reine angew. Math., Volume 225, 1967, pp. 154-190
4. ^ Goellnitz-Gordon Identities, Mathworld