Rudolf Karl Lueneburg

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Rudolf Karl Lüneburg (born March 30, 1903 in Volkersheim (Bockenem) ; † August 19, 1949 in Great Falls (Montana) , USA ; in the USA initially Lueneburg , later mostly Luneburg , incorrectly also Luneberg ) was a German mathematician and physicist . As a professor of mathematics and optics, he taught at the Eye Institute at Dartmouth College, among others . He is the namesake of the retroreflective Lüneburg lenses .

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Lüneburg studied in Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1930. On the run from the National Socialists he worked 1934-1935 as a physicist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and in 1935 emigrated to the United States. There he first worked in the mathematics faculty of New York University . From 1938 to 1945 he was employed in the research department of the Spencer Lens Company, part of the American Optical Company , in Rochester , New York. After a teaching position at Brown University in the summer of 1944, he went permanently to the Dartmouth Eye Institute at Brown University in 1946 , where he worked on the electromagnetic theory of optics and published several articles and books. From 1946 to 1948 he was a mathematician at the Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics at New York University with teaching assignments at the University of Marburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt . His last job was in 1949 as a professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California .

In 1949 Lüneburg died in a car accident.

Works

  • Rudolf Lüneburg: The problem of random walk without direction restriction and the boundary value problem of the potential theory. Dissertation, Department of Mathematics, Göttingen, May 20, 1930
  • published in: Mathematische Annalen. 104, 1931, pp. 700-738 ( online )
  • Rudolf Lüneburg: A remark on the proof of a theorem about almost periodic functions . In: Matematisk-Fysiske Meddelelser . tape 12 , no. 3 . Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 1932, p. 1-7 .
  • Rudolf K. Luneberg: Mathematical theory of optics . Brown University, Lecture Notes, Providence, RI 1944.
  • Reprint: Rudolf K. Luneburg: Mathematical theory of optics . University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles 1964 (foreword by E. Wolf, additional information by M. Herzberger).
  • Rudolf K. Luneburg: Mathematical Analysis of Binocular Vision . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1947.
  • Rudolf K. Luneburg: Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves . Lecture Notes, New York University 1947-48.
  • “Lecture Notes” by Rudolf K. Luneburg from his time at New York University

literature

  • AA Blank: The Luneburg Theory of Binocular Visual Space. In: Journal of the Optical Society of America. 43, 1953, pp. 717-721 ( abstract ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RK Luneburg, Max Herzberger: Mathematical theory of optics . University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles 1964, pp. IX .
  2. ↑ Interview with Joseph B. Keller . In: Notices of the AMS . tape 7 , no. 51 , 2004, p. 751-760 ( ams.org [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Short biography of Rudolf Karl Luneburg
personal data
SURNAME Lueneburg, Rudolf Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luneburg, Rudolf Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Volkersheim
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1949
Place of death Great Falls, Montana, USA