Herman Auerbach

Herman Auerbach (born October 26, 1901 in Tarnopol , Austria-Hungary , † August 17, 1942 in the Belzec extermination camp ) was a Polish mathematician and one of the leading representatives of the Lviv school of mathematicians .

Life

Auerbach was born in 1901 as the son of Philipp and Julia Auerbach in Ternopil, then Austrian and now Ukrainian. The father was a doctor of law. Auerbach attended school in Lodz, Ternopil and Olomouc until 1919. For health reasons, he could not begin his studies at the Faculty of Law at the Johann Casimir University in Lemberg until 1921. In the next year, Auerbach switched to the department of mathematics, where he graduated in 1926. In 1928 he received his doctorate on the subject of H-convex curves .

Auerbach completed his habilitation at the UJK Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in 1935 and became a professor at the University of Lemberg in 1939 , until he was imprisoned by the Germans in the Lemberg ghetto in 1942 because of his Jewish descent and then murdered in the Belzec extermination camp in August 1942.

The Auerbach lemma and the term Auerbach base are associated with his name.

literature

• Herman Auerbach: O polu krzywych wypukłych o średnicach sprzężonych (On surfaces of convex curves with conjugate diameters), dissertation at the University of Lwów (1929; in Polish).

Web links

• Biographies of Polish Mathematicians (Polish)
• Author profile in the database zbMATH