Richard Baldus
Richard Baldus (born May 11, 1885 in Saloniki , † January 28, 1945 in Munich ) was a German mathematician who dealt with geometry .
Life
Richard Baldus was the son of a station chief on the Anatolian Railway . After graduating from high school in 1904 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , he studied in Munich and at the University of Erlangen , where he received his doctorate under Max Noether in 1910 ( on radiation systems containing an infinite number of second-degree regular surfaces ) and completed his habilitation in 1911. From 1919 he was Professor of Geometry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (Rector 1923/24) and from 1932 Professor of Geometry (as successor to Sebastian Finsterwalder ) at the Technical University of Munich , where in 1934 he succeeded Walther von Dyck to his chair in mathematics started.
In 1933 he was President of the German Mathematicians Association . From 1929 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and from 1935 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Fonts
- Non-Euclidean geometry - hyperbolic geometry of the plane, Göschen Collection, de Gruyter 1927
- Formalism and Intuitionism in Mathematics, Karlsruhe, G. Braun 1924
literature
- Georg Faber: Baldus, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 558 ( digitized version ).
- Literature by and about Richard Baldus in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB -ID 12448436 , 1903/04
- ^ Gabriele Dörflinger: Mathematics in the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . 2014. p. 12.
Web links
- Richard Baldus in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| SURNAME | Baldus, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saloniki |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1945 |
| Place of death | Munich |