Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck the Younger

Robert Freiherr Daublebsky von Sterneck (born April 5, 1871 in Vienna , † March 18, 1928 in Graz ) was an Austrian mathematician from the Daublebsky von Sterneck family . He is also referred to as "Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck the Younger" to distinguish him from his father.

Robert Freiherr Daublebsky von Sterneck came from a patrician family from Budweis in southern Bohemia who had been mayors of the city for generations (see Daublebsky von Sterneck ). He was the son of the geodesist Robert von Sterneck , studied mathematics at the University of Vienna from 1889 and received his doctorate in 1893. Then he was a volunteer at the university library and in 1898 Amanuensis at the library of the Vienna University of Technology. In 1895 he completed his habilitation in Vienna and from 1896 was a private lecturer at the University of Vienna. He gave lectures on differential geometry, analytical number theory and algebra. In 1899 another habilitation took place at the Technical University of Vienna. In 1904 he became an associate professor at the University of Chernivtsi , where he became a full professor in 1906. In 1907 he became a full professor at the University of Graz , where he was dean of the philosophical faculty in 1913/14.

He dealt with algebra, differential geometry, additive number theory ( Waring's problem , partitions), later also with physics (especially geophysics, tidal theory), philosophy and experimental psychology (especially the human eye).

In 1912 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge (Newer empirical data on the number-theoretical function ). ${\displaystyle \sigma (n)}$

He was a member of the German Mathematicians Association , the Moscow Mathematical Society and the Circolo Matematico di Palermo .

Web links

• D. Angetter:  Daublebsky-Sterneck, Robert . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).

References and comments

1. ↑ This is the Mertens function meant