Paul Mahlo

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Friedrich Paul Mahlo (born July 28, 1883 in Düben (district of) Coswig (Anhalt) ; † August 20, 1971 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German mathematician.

Mahlo attended high school in Dessau and from 1902 studied at the University of Jena , the University of Greifswald , the University of Göttingen , the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the University of Halle , where he received his doctorate in 1908 under Felix Bernstein ( topological investigations on decomposition in plane and spherical polygons ). In 1910 he passed the teaching examination and was then trainee lawyer and then grammar school teacher in Bochum , Recklinghausen and Mansfeld at the Luther Pedagogy (from 1929). In 1933 he was removed from office.

Mahlo is known for his contributions to set theory . In 1911 he introduced large cardinal numbers named after him .

literature

  • Siegfried Gottwald, L. Kreiser Paul Mahlo - Life and Work , NTM Series for the History of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine Leipzig, Volume 21, Issue 2, 1984, pp. 1–22

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data and biography according to Renate Tobies , short biographies at the DMV
  2. ↑ Volker Peckhaus Becker and Zermelo , page 16, pdf  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . According to Gottwald u. a. Lexicon of important mathematicians retired in 1933 . According to information from Renate Tobies (website of the DMV), he was a retired Studies Assessor (StudAss retired) there in 1937 and lived in Halle in 1937. The Luther Pedagogy was a private (Protestant) secondary school and was only nationalized by the National Socialists in 1938.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / kw.uni-paderborn.de  
  3. ↑ On linear transfinite quantities, reports kgl. Saxon. Ges. Wiss. Leipzig, Volume 63, 1911, pp. 187-225. On the theory and application of the numbers , part 1,2, Leipziger reports, volume 64, 1912, pp. 108-112, volume 65, 1913, pp. 268-282
personal data
SURNAME Mahlo, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahlo, Friedrich Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Coswig (Anhalt)
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1971
Place of death Halle (Saale)