Hermann Schmidt (mathematician)
Hermann Karl Schmidt (born July 22, 1902 in Merkendorf ; † February 26, 1993 in Würzburg ) was a German mathematician and university professor.
Life
Hermann Schmidt put 1920 in Ansbach , the High School from. As a scholarship holder of the Maximilianeum, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Munich and at the Technical University until 1924 and attended lectures by Oskar Perron . In 1924 he passed the teaching examination for teaching at grammar schools and in 1927 he received his doctorate with the dissertation theory of linear differential equations with coefficients from an algebraic function field at the University of Munich. He received a faculty award for this dissertation. From 1927 to 1935 he was assistant to Robert König in Jena . After his habilitation in 1931 on the subject of multiplicative functions and the differential systems arising from them , he became a private lecturer. In 1939 he was appointed an extraordinary professor.
During the Second World War he was hired as a research assistant at the observatory in Berlin-Babelsberg . That is why it was brought to southern Germany by the American occupying forces in 1945 to clarify any contamination during National Socialism. Two years later he succeeded in resuming work as a scientist, initially in an assistant position at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1951 he was finally given a full professorship for mathematics and astronomy at the University of Würzburg . Together with Hermann Ludwig Schmid (1908–1956) and Herbert Bilharz (1910–1956), he founded a research center in 1953 to promote young mathematicians. In 1970 he retired.
Schmidt had mainly dealt with differential equations, function theory, asymptotics, algebra, continued fractions, number theory and differential geometry.
Honors
- 1927: Member of the German Mathematicians Association
- 1965: full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1991: Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit
Works
- Literature by and about Hermann Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
Web links
- Artur Bergmann, Hans Wilhelm Knobloch: Schmidt, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 192 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Würzburger Mathematikgeschichte on uni-wuerzburg.de, accessed on 23 August 2011
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schmidt, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Hermann Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merkendorf (Middle Franconia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1993 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |