Max Draeger (mathematician)

Max Emil Fritz Draeger (born October 8, 1895 in Berlin , † 1974 in Potsdam ) was a German mathematician .

Life

Draeger, born on October 8, 1895 in Berlin , studied mathematics , physics and philosophy in Berlin and Jena . His studies were interrupted by his participation in the First World War in 1917 and 1918. At the University of Jena , Draeger received his doctorate in 1918 with a dissertation on recurrent series of higher, especially third, order . For a short time he was an assistant at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Jena and in 1919 switched to teaching . In 1924 he became director of studies.

During the Nazi era , Draeger became a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare in 1935 . In 1941 he published Mathematik und Rasse in the journal Deutsche Mathematik .

After the end of World War II , Draeger became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1946 . In 1949 Draeger became professor at the TH Dresden , where he worked until 1955 - with a brief interruption due to a teaching position at the University of Leipzig in 1950 and 1951. From 1955 to 1959 Draeger was a professor with a chair for number theory and algebra at the Potsdam University of Education .

Max Draeger died in Potsdam in 1974 .

Publications

• On recurrent series of higher, especially third, order , Weida 1919.
• The terms necessary and sufficient in mathematics , 1923.
• Application of the infinitesimal calculus to science and technology , Leipzig 1937.
• Arithmetic series and basic properties of whole numbers , Leipzig 1937.
• Selected higher curves that are important for science, technology and history , Leipzig 1937.
• Mathematics and Race , 1941.
• Lesson letters for distance learning. Introduction to higher mathematics for chemists , 1952/1953.
• Number, function and group , Leipzig 1955.
• Mathematics for natural scientists , Dresden 1969. Revision of the work by Hugo Sirk (1881–1959).

literature

• Prof. Dr. phil. Max Emil Fritz Draeger, University of Leipzig, professor catalog.
• Kristie Macrakis, Dieter Hoffmann (Eds.): Science under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective , Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 .