Peter Albin Lesky

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Peter Albin Lesky (born December 6, 1926 in Graz , † February 12, 2008 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian mathematician .

Life

Lesky was born into a family of teachers, his father was the classical philologist Albin Lesky . He initially enjoyed a humanistic education and then completed his military service in Yugoslavia . In 1950 Lesky completed his studies of mathematics and physics at the universities of Graz and Innsbruck , where Wolfgang Gröbner , Johann Radon and Leopold Vietoris were among his teachers, with a doctorate . He then worked for two years at the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo in Rome , before teaching from 1952 to 1965, first at the Academic Gymnasium and then at the Reithmanngymnasium in Innsbruck. At the same time, Lesky completed his habilitation thesis by 1959 and also worked as a university assistant at the University of Innsbruck from 1962 to 1965 . He was appointed in late 1965 Professor at the 1967 University of Stuttgart renamed Technical University of Stuttgart appointed, where he remained until his retirement was in 1992 and was Chair of the Mathematics Institute A as Managing Director.

Lesky was for many years a member of the Grand Senate and from 1982 to 1986 its chairman, several times dean and institute director as well as chairman of the examination board. He also worked on the Baden-Württemberg curriculum commission and carried out numerous teacher training courses. Until his death in February 2008 he carried out further research projects in his field.

Peter Albin Lesky was an avid music lover, mountaineer and skier. He was married and is the father of Peter Heinrich Lesky (* 1959), also a mathematician at the University of Stuttgart.

Scientific activity

During his academic career, Lesky was mainly active in the field of orthogonal polynomials and hypergeometric functions . He was co-author of 13 books and monographs as well as 80 mostly German articles and 14 of the 17 doctoral students he supervised who wrote dissertations on these topics.

Fonts (selection)

  • The relationships between orthogonal polynomials whose orthogonality intervals match. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical and natural science class. Meeting reports, Section 2, Vol. 170, H. 1/4, 1962, ISSN  0029-8816 , pp. 11–34 (also as a special print).
  • The orthogonalization of the x-powers with integer exponents, among which s [s = 1, 2, 3, ...] consecutive ones are missing. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical and natural science class. Meeting reports, Dept. 2, Vol. 170, H. 5/7, 1962, pp. 151-162 (also as a special print).
  • Orthogonal polynomial chains as solutions of Sturm-Liovuille differential equations. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical and natural science class. Meeting reports, Dept. 2, Vol. 173, H. 5/8, 1964, pp. 181–193 (also as a special print).
  • Orthogonal polynomials as solutions of Heunscher's differential equations. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical and natural science class. Meeting reports, Dept. 2, Vol. 173, H. 9/10, 1965, pp. 259–267 (also as a special reprint).
  • (with Wolfgang Gröbner ) Mathematical methods in physics. 2 volumes. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1964–1965 ( BI university pocket books 89–90 / 90a).
  • (with Jörg Brenner ) Basics of structurally emphasized school mathematics. Raeber, Luzern et al. 1972 ( individual writings for the organization of mathematical-physical lessons 8, ISSN  0422-8014 ).
  • (with Ernst Kühner ) Fundamentals of functional analysis and approximation theory. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977, ISBN 3-525-40539-1 ( Modern mathematics in elementary representation 17).
  • (with Jörg Brenner and Alfred Vogel) Probability calculation and statistics. 1st edition, Klett, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-920551-9 .
  • (with Jörg Brenner and Alfred Vogel) Probability calculation and statistics. 2nd edition, Klett, Stuttgart 1982.
  • (with Jörg Brenner and Alfred Vogel) Probability calculation and statistics. 3rd edition, Klett, Stuttgart 1983.
  • Resonance phenomena in waveguides for a class of higher-order partial differential equations. Stuttgart, 1987 (Univ., Diss., 1987).
  • A uniqueness condition for the polyharmonic equation in free space. Collaborative Research Center 256, Bonn 1989 ( Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Collaborative Research Center 256. Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Preprint 68, ZDB -ID 60984-5 ).
  • Local existence for solutions of fully nonlinear wave equations. Collaborative Research Center 256, Bonn 1989 ( Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Collaborative Research Center 256. Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Preprint 149).
  • A characterization of the classical continuous, discrete, and q-orthogonal polynomials. Shaker, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-8322-3796-8 ( reports from mathematics ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary from the Mathematics Department at the University of Stuttgart (PDF file; 23 kB)
  2. ^ Uni-Kurier of the press office of the University of Stuttgart
  3. ↑ The Electronic News Net of the SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions (PDF file; 646 kB)
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae of Peter H. Lesky ( Memento from November 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Lesky, Peter Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2008
Place of death innsbruck