Karl-Heinrich Weise
Karl-Heinrich Weise (born May 24, 1909 in Gera ; † April 15, 1990 ) was a German mathematician.
Life
Weise was the son of a secondary school teacher and studied from 1928 at the University of Leipzig and the University of Jena , where he received his doctorate under Robert König in 1934 ( Contributions to the class problem of quadratic differential forms , Mathematische Annalen Vol. 110, 1935, p. 522). Then he was an assistant in Jena and, after his habilitation in 1937, a lecturer. In 1942 he became associate professor and in 1945 full professor at Kiel University as the successor to Adolf Hammerstein . With Friedrich Bachmann , he rebuilt the Mathematical Institute there after the Second World War. His lectures at the time (for example on knot theory and theFour-color problem ) were popular and his student Wolfgang Haken received there (and from a lecture by Heinrich Heesch, who lives in Kiel ) the first inspiration for his later occupation (and solution) of the four-color problem. 1952/53 he was rector of the university. He was significantly involved in the establishment of the computer center at the University of Kiel in 1959 (with Erich Bagge ) and the establishment of a computer science course in 1969. However, he never taught computer science (only numerical mathematics) himself, but he used the computer as early as the 1950s (a Zuse Z22 ) for calculations in knot theory. From 1971 to 1977 he was director of the Institute for Computer Science and Practical Mathematics he founded. In 1977 he retired. In 1978 he became an honorary senator of the University of Kiel.
In 1956 he was President of the German Mathematicians Association .
His doctoral students include Wolfgang Haken , Wilhelm Klingenberg , Wolfgang Gaschütz , Heinz König , Jens Mennicke , Bodo Schlender .
Fonts
- with Robert König: Mathematical Basics of Cartography , Vol. 1 (The Earth Sphere and Its Conformal Images), Springer 1951.
- Ordinary differential equations , Wolfenbütteler Verlagsanstalt, Wolfenbüttel and Hanover 1948.
- Differential equations , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1966.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Heinrich Weise in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Web links
- Biography at McTutor
- Renate Tobies : Biographical Lexicon in Mathematics for PhDs, 2006
- History of the Institute for Computer Science and Practical Mathematics Speech by Prof. Dr. Hans Langmaack at the celebratory colloquium on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Computer Science and Practical Mathematics at Kiel University on December 6, 1996
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wise, Karl-Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1990 |