Richard Fuchs (mathematician)

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Richard Fuchs (born December 5, 1873 in Greifswald , †  December 28, 1944 in Bad Doberan , full name Maximilian Ernst Richard Fuchs ) was a German mathematician and flight technician.

Richard Fuchs received his doctorate in Berlin in 1897 with the dissertation on the periodicity modules of the hyperelliptic integrals as functions of a branch point and was from 1901 senior teacher of mathematics at the grammar school. In 1906 he received his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 1922 he was an associate professor.

Richard Fuchs was the son of the mathematician Lazarus Fuchs . Together with Ludwig Schlesinger , he edited his father's collected mathematical works .

One of Richard Fuchs' main fields of work was the theory of differential equations in complexes. Here he completed, among other things, Paul Painlevé's investigations into differential equations of the second order without moving singularities. His work on the subject (see Painlevé equations ) took work anticipated that were much later date, equation Picard-Fuchs (after his father and so on Isomonodromie properties of the Painlevé equations and the relationship with the Émile Picard is named ).

Richard Fuchs also worked on flight technology. He wrote the book Aerodynamics together with Ludwig Hopf . From 1924 to 1936 he worked as a freelancer at the German Aviation Research Institute in Berlin-Adlershof, then at the German Aviation Research Institute in Braunschweig.

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SURNAME Fuchs, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Maximilian Ernst Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1944
Place of death Bad Doberan