Paul Funk
Paul Georg Funk (born April 14, 1886 in Vienna ; † June 3, 1969 ibid) was an Austrian mathematician who dealt with geometry and the calculus of variations .
Live and act
Paul Funk was the son of a deputy bank director and went to high school in Baden near Vienna and in Gmunden . He studied mathematics and physics in Tübingen , Vienna and Göttingen , where he received his doctorate under David Hilbert in 1911 ( on surfaces with lots of closed geodetic lines ). In 1915 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on spherical functions at the Technical University of Prague , where he became associate professor in 1921 and professor in 1927. With the occupation of Czechoslovakia he lost his job in 1939 and was deported to Theresienstadt in 1944 , where he was liberated in 1945. In 1945 he was appointed professor at the Vienna University of Technology .
When several attempts were made in the 1960s to elect the electrical engineer Heinrichsequence as a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Funk, as an academician, persistently submitted petitions and objections. He was buried at the Neustift cemetery .
Funk is best known for his work on the calculus of variations, about which he wrote the standard work of calculus of variations and their application in physics and technology (Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, Springer-Verlag, 1962).
literature
- Maximilian Pinl: colleagues in dark times. Annual report DMV vol. 75, 1974, p. 172.
Fonts
- About geometries in which the straight lines are the shortest , Mathematische Annalen, Volume 101, 1929, pp. 226-237
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Funk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Funk in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Oberkofler, Gerhard (2005). “The mathematician Paul Funk is confronted with the Austrian Academy of Sciences' coming to terms with the past”. In: DÖW - Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (ed.). Yearbook 2005. Focus on women in resistance and persecution . Vienna: LIT. Pp. 200-217. Online onter http://www.doew.at/cms/download/10447/web_jahrbuch_05.pdf
- ^ Paul Funk grave site , Vienna, Neustifter Friedhof, Group 10, Row 5, No. 19.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Funk, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Funk, Paul Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd June 1969 |
| Place of death | Vienna |