Otto Franz Georg Schilling

Otto Franz Georg Schilling (born November 3, 1911 in Apolda ; † June 20, 1973 in Highland Park , Illinois ) was a German-American mathematician who studied algebra.

Schilling was the son of a master bell founder ( bell foundry in Apolda ) and went to high school in Apolda. From 1930 he studied mathematics at the University of Jena , the University of Göttingen (with Emmy Noether ) and the University of Marburg . In 1935 he received his doctorate in Marburg under Helmut Hasse with a topic ("About certain relationships between the arithmetic of hypercomplex number systems and algebraic number fields", Mathematische Annalen vol. 111, 1935, p. 372), which Emmy Noether had suggested. He then served as a post-doc at the Trinity College of Cambridge University and from 1935 to 1937 at the Institute for Advanced Study . He was then on a scholarship at Johns Hopkins University and from 1939 instructor at the University of Chicago . In 1943 he became an assistant professor there, in 1945 an associate professor and in 1958 he was given a full professorship. From 1961 he was a professor at Purdue University , where he stayed until his death.

Schilling dealt for example (partly with Hasse) with division algebras and the arithmetic of function fields, evaluation theory.

He should not be confused with the mathematician (geometry) Otto Bernhard Schilling (1890–1945, professor in Dresden).

Harley Flanders and Anatol Rapoport are among his PhD students .

Fonts

• Theory of Valuations, American Mathematical Society 1950
• with W. Stephen Piper: Basic –Abstract Algebra, Boston, Allyn and Bacon 1975
• Published by: Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry (Lafayette / Indiana Conference 1963), Harper and Row 1965

source

• Renate Tobies : Biographical Lexicon in Mathematics for PhDs , 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://hds.hebis.de/ubmr/Record/HEB316362204 - accessed on February 1, 2019