Nikolai Maximowitsch Günter

Nikolai Günther ( Russian Николай Максимович Гюнтер ; born December 5 ^{. Jul} / 17th December 1871 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 4. May 1941 ) was a Soviet mathematician.

Life

Günter studied at the University of Saint Petersburg , where he graduated in 1894 and received his doctorate in 1915 under Alexander Nikolajewitsch Korkin (on the theory of the characteristics of systems of partial differential equations). He became a professor at Leningrad University and played a leading role in the mathematical life of Leningrad. From 1923 to 1930 he was President of the Leningrad Mathematical Society . In 1931 he fell victim to a political campaign. He was accused of idealism and conservative mathematical thinking and he was forced to resign as head of the mathematics faculty. At the center of the attacks was the maths lecturer LA Leifert, who was completely insignificant as a mathematician, but was temporarily influential in the early 1930s with a campaign for a Marxist interpretation of mathematics. He managed to bring the activities of the Leningrad Mathematical Society headed by Günter to a standstill in favor of his society of materialistic mathematicians . His campaign soon proved to be a fruitless wrong track and in 1932 Leifert was removed from his office and deported to Rostov-on-Don. Previously but significant mathematician in Leningrad gave his political campaign after its declaration and was among others of spruce (who was one of the main objectives of Leiferts campaign Günter before), Kantorovich , Vinogradov and Delone signed. Günter's pupils Sobolew and Smirnow did not sign.

Günter mainly dealt with common differential equations, potential theory and mathematical physics, for example in the area of hydrodynamics. He is known for a collection of exercises on mathematics (1909), which was later revised by Kusmin .

His doctoral students include Sergei Lwowitsch Sobolew and Solomon Grigoryevich Michlin .

He was a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

with RO Kusmin : Collection of exercises on higher mathematics. 2 volumes (= university books for mathematics . Vol. 32 and 33). German Science Publishers, Berlin 1957.

literature

Sobolew , Smirnow : Obituary, Izvestija Akad. Nauka, Vol. 5, 1941, p. 193

Web links

Biography and photo
Literature by and about Nikolai Maximowitsch Günter in the catalog of the German National Library

References

↑ Kutateladze Sobolev of the Euler School , Preprint 2009, PDF file
^ GG Lorentz Mathematics and Politics in the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953, J. Approx. Theory, 116, 2002, 169-223
↑ О задачнике Н. М. Гюнтера и Р. О. Кузьмина ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 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. - History of the collection of exercises (Russian)

personal data
SURNAME	Günter, Nikolai Maximowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gjunter, Nikolaj Maksimowič; Гюнтер, Николай Максимович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	May 4, 1941
Place of death	Leningrad

[1] Kutateladze Sobolev of the Euler School , Preprint 2009, PDF file

[2] GG Lorentz Mathematics and Politics in the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953, J. Approx. Theory, 116, 2002, 169-223

[3] О задачнике Н. М. Гюнтера и Р. О. Кузьмина ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 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. - History of the collection of exercises (Russian)