Ludwig Eckhart

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Ludwig Eckhart (born March 8, 1890 in Selletitz , Moravia , † October 5, 1938 ) was an Austrian mathematician.

Eckhart attended the Oberrealschule in Znojmo , first studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Vienna from 1907 and switched to mathematics after the first state examination in 1912. He then became Emil Müller's assistant at the chair for descriptive geometry. He was wounded as a soldier in World War I and received his doctorate in 1919 from the Vienna University of Technology (A mapping of linear radiation complexes on the plane) . From 1918 he was a teacher and at the same time gave courses in descriptive geometry at the University of Vienna. In 1924 he completed his habilitation in geometry at the TH Vienna, while he was director of the Federal Educational Institute in Vienna-Breitensee. In 1929 he became professor for descriptive geometry at the TH Vienna. After he was removed from office in 1938 after the annexation of Austria , he committed suicide.

In 1937 Eckhart gave the so-called rapid cracking process , which is now known as the incision process .

Fonts

  • Constructive mapping process. An introduction to the newer methods of descriptive geometry. Vienna 1927.
  • The four-dimensional space. Leipzig 1929.

literature

  • Maximilian Pinl : Colleagues in a dark time. Annual report DMV, 75, 1973, p. 190.
  • W. Wunderlich: Obituary. Nachrichten Math. Ges. Wien, 2, 1948, pp. 16-18.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Strubecker : Lectures of the Descriptive Geometry. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967, p. 121.
personal data
SURNAME Eckhart, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Selletitz , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1938