Olaf Neumann (mathematician)

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Olaf Neumann (born January 25, 1938 in Liegnitz ; † December 17, 2017 in Jena ) was a German mathematician and mathematician. Until his retirement he was a professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

life and work

Neumann studied mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1955 to 1960 . From 1961 he was in Saint Petersburg with Igor Schafarewitsch and others and received his doctorate in 1966 at Lomonosov University . From 1966 to 1978 he was in the research group of the number theorist Helmut Koch at the Central Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In 1972 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin (PhD B) with a thesis on the reduction of elliptical curves. In 1979 he became a university lecturer in Jena and in 1992 a university professor (chair for the basics and history of mathematics).

In 1987/88 he was a Fulbright scholar at Brown University .

As a mathematician he dealt with algebra and algebraic number theory and as a mathematician with the history of these disciplines. His interest in the history of science began around 1977 as Secretary of the Gauss Commission.

In 1997 he became a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

Fonts (selection)

About mathematics:

  • About localizations of the cohomology of pro-finite groups, Mathematische Nachrichten, Volume 43, 1970, pp. 185-213
  • On the Galois cohomology of Abelian manifolds, Mathematische Nachrichten, Volume 40, 1969, pp. 367-378
  • For the reduction of the elliptical curves, Mathematische Nachrichten, Volume 46, 1970, pp. 285-310
  • Elliptical curves with prescribed reduction behavior, 2 parts, Mathematische Nachrichten, Volume 49, 1971, pp. 107-123, Volume 56, 1973, pp. 269-280
  • On p-closed number fields with restricted ramification, Math. USSR Izvestija, Volume 9, 1975

On the history of mathematics:

  • as editor: Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866). With B. Riemann, habilitation lecture, Göttingen 1854 (first published in Göttingen 1867 / BG Teubner 1876); R. Dedekind: Bernhard Riemann's curriculum vitae, BG Teubner 1876; O. Neumann: About Riemann's habilitation lecture, EAGLE 2017, Leipzig, Edition am Gutenbergplatz Leipzig, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95922-097-2 [1]
  • as editor / editor and translator: Bernhard Riemann, Hermann Minkowski, Riemannsche Raum and Minkowski-Welt, Eagle, Edition am Gutenbergplatz 2012, (with B. Riemann's habilitation lecture, Göttingen 1854, Riemann's Commentatio Mathematica (1861), Minkowski's Space and Time , and D. Hilbert's memorial speech on H. Minkowski (1909) and Dedekind's curriculum vitae by Riemann, and the essay "Riemann, Minkowski and the concept of space" by Olaf Neumann)
  • Remarks from today's perspective on Gauss' contributions to number theory, algebra and function theory, NTM series for the history of natural science, technology and medicine, Volume 16, 1979, pp. 22–39
  • CF Gauss, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801), in Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Ed.), Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640–1940, Elsevier 2005
  • On the impetus for Kummer's creation of the ideal complex numbers, in: Joseph W. Dauben (Ed.), Mathematical Perspectives, essays on mathematics and his historical development, presented to Kurt-Reinhard Biermann on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Academic Press 1981 , Pp. 179-199
  • Editor with Menso Folkerts : The correspondence between Kummer and Reuschle : a contribution to the history of algebraic number theory, Augsburg, Rauner, 2006
  • with Harold Edwards , Walter Purkert : Dedekinds Bunte Comments zu Kroneckers Grundzüge, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 27, 1982, pp. 49-85
  • with Walter Purkert: Richard Dedekind - for his 150th birthday, Mitt. Mathem. Ges. Der DDR, 1981, pp. 84–110
  • What should and what are divisors?, Mathematische Semesterberichte, Volume 48, 2002, pp. 139–192
  • The development of Galois theory between arithmetic and topology (1850 to 1960), Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 50, 1997, pp. 291–329
  • On the genesis of algebraic number theory, NTM series for the history of science, technology and medicine, 3 parts, 1979/80
  • Editor with Hans Wußing , Kurt-R. Biermann: Gauss´Mathematisches Tagebuch 1796–1814, Academic Publishing Company Geest and Portig, 2nd edition 1979 and more often

He translated Chapter 5 (number theory) by Jean Dieudonné (editor), Geschichte der Mathematik 1700-1900, Vieweg 1985 and Leonhard Euler on the theory of complex functions (with Walter Purkert , 1983, from the Latin). In 1962 he also translated the Affine Differential Geometry by Petr Alexejewitsch Schirokow from Russian.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates: Kürschner Scholar Calendar 2009
  2. ↑ Burkhard Külshammer: Prof. Dr. Olaf Neumann deceased - obituary. (No longer available online.) Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena , December 20, 2017, archived from the original on December 22, 2017 ; Retrieved December 20, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fmi.uni-jena.de
  3. ^ Short biography in Eagle Verlag, Leipzig
  4. ↑ According to Kürschner, Scholars Calendar 2009, short biography on the website of the Eagle publishing house, according to the Mathematics Genealogy Project ( Olaf Neumann in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English) Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used) he received his doctorate in 1970 under Hans Reichardt (investigations into the arithmetic of Abelian manifolds)
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 2017
Place of death Jena