Robert Furch

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Robert Otto Furch (born March 15, 1894 in Unterreichenbach , † November 7, 1967 in Tübingen ) was a German mathematician. He was a professor at the University of Rostock and the University of Mainz . He dealt with potential theory, geometry and topology.

Furch was the son of a pastor. After graduating from high school in Tübingen in 1911, he first studied chemistry at the University of Strasbourg , did his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1911/12 and switched to studying mathematics in Tübingen in 1913. From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War, where he made it to lieutenant. In 1920 he passed his state examination for higher education in Tübingen and received his doctorate there in 1920 under Ludwig Maurer (on the electrostatic potential of surfaces of rotation). In the same year he was a student trainee in Elringen , but then continued his studies in Göttingen in 1920/21. In 1921 he became an assistant and after his habilitation in 1923 (on the foundation of combinatorial topology) private lecturer in Hamburg.

In 1925 he had a teaching position for descriptive geometry at the TH Karlsruhe and in 1926 he became a professor in Rostock. In 1935/36 he was dean and from 1939 co-director of the Institute for Applied Mathematics, after he was also a deputy chair for applied mathematics there in 1937/38.

In 1945 he moved back to Tübingen and in 1945/46 was acting mayor of Tübingen-Lustnau and a member of the denazification commission for South-Württemberg.

From 1946 until his retirement in 1961 he was a full professor and director of the Mathematical Institute at the University of Mainz. In 1953/54 he was dean in Mainz.

Walter Benz and Günter Ewald are among his doctoral students .

literature

  • Walter Benz, Günter Ewald, obituary in Annual Report DMV, Volume 72, 1970, 63–69

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Individual evidence

  1. Robert Furch in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used