Otto Haupt (mathematician)
Otto Haupt (born March 5, 1887 in Würzburg , † November 10, 1988 in Bad Soden am Taunus ) was a German mathematician.
Life
Haupt was the son of a district court director. After graduating from high school in 1906, he studied in Würzburg , where he became a member of the Arminia Würzburg fraternity in 1906 , passed his teaching state examination in 1910 and received his doctorate under Emil Hilb in 1911 ( investigations on oscillation theorems ). He then studied at the University of Munich with Arnold Sommerfeld (with a Lamont scholarship from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences) and at the Technical University and the University in Breslau (with Erhard Schmidt , Constantin Caratheodory , Ernst Steinitz , Adolf Kneser ). In 1913 he became a research assistant to Adolf Krazer in Karlsruhe , where he completed his habilitation in 1913, but had to interrupt his scientific work at the outbreak of the war due to his conscription. From 1914 to 1919 he was a soldier in the First World War. In 1920 he became a full professor in Rostock , but was appointed to the Staudt chair in Erlangen as early as 1921 (as the successor to Ernst Sigismund Fischer ), where he remained scientifically active well into old age after his retirement in 1953 - his last works appear in the 1980s. Most recently he lived in a nursing home in Bad Soden.
Haupt established the Otto and Edith Haupt Foundation with his fortune. The Staudt Prize has been awarded from the interest on the foundation's assets since 1991 .
The main research interests were analysis , measurement theory , differential and order geometry . He published basic textbooks on algebra - one of the first textbooks of "modern" abstract algebra - and analysis.
He was married to Edith Hughes († 1981) since 1918.
In 1987 he became an honorary member of the DMV .
Fonts
- Introduction to Algebra. Academic Publishing Company, Leipzig 1929, (3rd edition. 1956)
- Differential and integral calculus - with special consideration of recent results. De Gruyter, Berlin 1938. (2nd edition in three volumes. 1948 to 1955 with Georg Aumann, Christian Pauc )
- with Georg Aumann : Introduction to real analysis. 3. Edition. De Gruyter, 1974.
- with Hermann Künneth : Geometrical Orders. Springer 1967.
Honors
- Honorary doctorate from the Universities of Bonn, Würzburg and Nantes
- Bavarian Order of Merit (1963)
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Haupt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Otto Haupt in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
- JB_DMV Heft 89 Volume 2: M. Barner, F. Flohr: Otto Haupt on his 100th birthday (PDF file; 7.1 MB)
- JB_DMV Issue 92 Volume 4: H. Bauer: Otto Haupt: Person and Work (PDF file; 8.3 MB)
- Short biography at DMV
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 183.
- ↑ Otto Haupt: Centenarian mathematician in The Mathematical Intelligencer , 1987, volume 9, issue 4, pages 50-51
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haupt, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1988 |
| Place of death | Bad Soden am Taunus |