Johannes Weissinger

Johannes Weissinger (born May 12, 1913 in Naumburg ; † November 20, 1995 ) was a German applied mathematician who dealt with fluid mechanics. He was Professor of Applied Mathematics and Director of the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the TH Karlsruhe .

Weissinger attended the state school in Pforta (Abitur 1930) and studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at the University of Jena and the University of Hamburg . In 1936 he passed the teaching examination in Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1937 under Emil Artin (theory of divisor congruence). From 1937 to 1945 he worked as a scientist at the German Aviation Research Institute in Berlin-Adlershof. In 1943 he completed his habilitation at the TH Darmstadt . From 1946 he was again as a scientific assistant at the University of Hamburg, where he was acting head of the chair for applied mathematics from 1948 to 1952 and from 1952 diet lecturer. From 1953 he was a full professor at the TH Karlsruhe, where he was rector in 1961/62 and retired in 1981.

In 1952 he proved Weissinger's fixed point theorem .

Fonts

• On the aerodynamics of the ring wing, 4 parts, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1955, 1960
• Characteristics of mathematical thinking. Lecture given ... on December 2, 1961. ( Digital edition . Univ. Heidelberg, 2008)
• Theory of the wing with stationary movement in frictionless, incompressible media, in S. Flügge, C. Truesdell (Ed.) Handbuch der Physik, Volume VIII / 2, Fluid Mechanics II, Springer Verlag 1963 pp. 385–437
• Numerical mathematics on personal computers, BI Verlag 1984, 2 volumes (Vol. 1 Introduction to Theory and Programming with Basic, Vol. 2 Basic Programs)
• Lectures on higher mathematics, BI university pocket books, 4 volumes, 1984
• Sparse systems of equations: an introduction with Basic and Pascal programs, BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1990

Web links

• Estate at KIT

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project