Othmar Baier
Othmar Baier (born November 16, 1905 in Augsburg , † April 2, 1980 in Munich ) was a German mathematician.
life and work
He was the son of professor Richard Baier, studied mathematics and physics at the University and Technical University in Munich from 1924 , passed his second state examination in 1929 and received his doctorate in 1931 under Sebastian Finsterwalder with a thesis on the surfaces on which the Darboux lines form triangular networks .
He was 1931/32 assistant at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and then to 1937 at the Technical University of Munich, where he joined in 1934 at Lense with a work from the kinematics habilitated . At the TH Stuttgart he was then acting professor for descriptive geometry and applied mathematics from 1937, from 1945 associate professor and 1952 full professor. From 1960 to 1971 he was the TH Munich, succeeding Frank Löbell, director of the Institute for Geometry.
He married Erna Zurl (1906–1973), a student assistant professor at the Girls' College, with whom he had four children. He wrote 22 papers and applied for three patents that formed the basis for the rotary engine .
literature
- Oswald Giering: In memory of Othmar Baier . In: Annual Report of the German Mathematicians Association , Vol. 86 (1984), pp. 160-165, ISSN 0012-0456 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.kk.s.bw.schule.de/mathge/baier.htm
- ↑ https://dmv.mathematik.de/die-dmv/105-kurzbiographien/395-kurzbiographien-z.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baier, Othmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1980 |
| Place of death | Munich |