Philipp Furtwängler (mathematician)
Friedrich Pius Philipp Furtwängler (born April 21, 1869 in Elze , † May 19, 1940 in Vienna ) was a German mathematician who was mainly active in the field of number theory .
Life
Philipp Furtwängler was a son of the organ builder Wilhelm Furtwängler (1829-1883) and grandson of the organ builder Philipp Furtwängler .
Philipp Furtwängler studied at the University of Göttingen from 1889 . Furtwängler wrote his doctoral thesis in 1896 with Felix Klein in Göttingen on the theory of integer ternary cubic forms that can be decomposed into linear factors .
In 1899 he became an assistant at the Geodetic Institute in Potsdam . Here he carried out gravimetric measurements, which were used a short time later to determine the Potsdam gravity system . From 1904 he was professor at the Agricultural University Poppelsdorf in Bonn, from 1907 professor of mathematics at the Technical University in Aachen and from 1910 again in Bonn.
He spent the longest part of his academic career from 1912 to 1938 at the University of Vienna . Furtwangler was paralyzed from the neck down by an illness. He had to be carried into the lecture hall and gave his lectures without a manuscript from a wheelchair. Kurt Gödel , who later described Furtwängler's lectures as the best he had ever heard, was one of his numerous students .
Furtwängler gained particular fame through his work Proof of the Main Ideal Theorem for Class Fields of Algebraic Number Fields , which he published in 1930. He also wrote chapters on the mechanics of pendulums and other apparatus (1904) and on cartography (1909) in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences .
In 1916 he became a corresponding member, in 1927 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , and in 1931 a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1939 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
literature
- Furtwängler Philipp Friedrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 383.
- Nikolaus Hofreiter : Furtwängler, Friedrich Pius Philipp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 740 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Philipp Furtwängler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Selected references from the holdings of the academy library: Philipp Furtwängler
- Furtwängler's biography at MacTutor
- Philipp Furtwängler in The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Philipp Furtwängler. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, accessed on March 26, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Furtwängler, Philipp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Furtwängler, Friedrich Pius Philipp (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elze |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1940 |
| Place of death | Vienna |