Karl Strubecker

Karl Strubecker (born August 8, 1904 in Hollenstein an der Ybbs in Austria , † February 19, 1991 in Karlsruhe ) was an Austrian mathematician who dealt with geometry and differential geometry .

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Karl Strubecker was the son of a forester. After the death of his father, he moved to Vienna with his mother. From 1924 he studied at the University of Vienna with Philipp Furtwängler , Hans Hahn , Eduard Helly , Josef Lense , Leopold Vietoris and Wilhelm Wirtinger and at the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Descriptive Geometry with Emil Müller . He became an assistant to Müller, who died in 1927, and received his doctorate in 1928 at the University of Vienna under Wilhelm Wirtinger ( on non-Euclidean screws and some special non-Euclidean and Euclidean screw surfaces ). He then worked as an assistant at the Technical University of Müller's successor Kruppa, habilitated in geometry in 1931 (at the TH) and in mathematics in 1935 (at the university). He held lectures as a private lecturer and in 1939 became an adjunct professor at the TH. In 1942 he became a professor in Strasbourg . In 1947 he became a professor in Karlsruhe, where he retired in 1972. In 1949/50, 1950/51 and 1962/3 he was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences.

He was a corresponding member of the Austrian (since 1939) and Yugoslav Academy of Sciences . In 1932 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich and in 1962 gave a lecture at the ICM in Stockholm ( Airy stress function and isotropic differential geometry ).

In 1984 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Vienna University of Technology .

Fonts

• Introduction to higher mathematics. 4 volumes, Oldenbourg, 1956–1984, DNB 458272183 , DNB 550542353 .
• Differential geometry. 3 volumes, Göschen Collection, 1955–1959, DNB 454938888 . (2nd edition 1968/1969)
• Lectures on descriptive geometry. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1958, DNB 454938934

literature

• K. Leichtweiß : Karl Strubecker in memory. In: Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association. (PDF; 8.6 MB) Vol. 94, 1992, pp. 105-117.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 26, 2015.