Rolin Wavre
Rolin-Louis Wavre (born March 25, 1896 in Neuchâtel , † December 9, 1949 in Geneva ) was a Swiss mathematician .
Wavre studied at the Sorbonne , received his doctorate in 1921 at the University of Geneva , where he was an associate professor from 1922 and a full professor from 1934 (as successor to Charles Cailler ). Among other things, he dealt with the logic and philosophy of mathematics, following Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer as an intuitionist . At about the same time as Leon Lichtenstein , he also dealt with equilibrium figures of rotating fluid bodies, with a view to applications on the shape of the planets and the earth in astrophysics.
In 1932 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Zurich (L'aspect analytique du Genealogie des figures planétaires). In 1936/37 he was President of the Swiss Mathematical Society .
He was a childhood friend of the same age Jean Piaget in Neuchâtel.
Fonts
- La logique amusante. Editions du Mont-Blanc, Geneva 1946.
- Is there a crisis in mathematics? In: American Mathematical Monthly. Vol. 41 (1934), p. 488.
- L'imagination du réel, l'invention et la découverte dans la science des nombres. Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1948.
- Figures planétaires et géodésie. Gauthiers-Villars 1932 (preface by Jacques Hadamard ).
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- George Tiercy, Rolin Wavre : Annales des l'Université de Lyon, Section A, Sciences de Mathématiques et Astronomie, Volume 13, 1950, pp. 5-6.
Web links
- Literature by and about Rolin Wavre in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wavre, Rolin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wavre, Rolin-Louis; Wavre, Rolin Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1896 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1949 |
| Place of death | Geneva |