Walter Gröbli

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Walter Gröbli (born September 23, 1852 in Oberuzwil ; † June 26, 1903 at Piz Blas ) was a Swiss mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics .

Life

Gröbli's father Isaak was a jacquard weaver and developed his own weaving machine. He attended the school in Oberuzwil, the industrial school in Töss and the canton school at Burggraben in St. Gallen . From 1871 to 1875 he studied at the Zurich Polytechnic with the physicist Heinrich Friedrich Weber and the mathematician Hermann Amandus Schwarz . Weber called him the best student he ever had and sparked Gröbli's interest in hydrodynamic problems. In 1875 Gröbli continued his studies in Berlin and solved a price problem posed by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff about vortex theory. Apart from Kirchhoff, he heard from Hermann von Helmholtz , Ernst Eduard Kummer and Karl Weierstrass . In 1876 he received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen bei Schwarz ( special problems about the movement of straight, parallel vortex filaments ) and in 1877 he completed his habilitation in Zurich and became a private lecturer at the Polytechnic and assistant to Ferdinand Georg Frobenius . Until 1894 Gröbli mainly taught hydrodynamics at the Polytechnic, but from 1883 he was full-time professor of mathematics at the high school in Zurich, where he impressed his students as an excellent mental calculator. He stopped his research in favor of teaching and his dissertation remained his only publication. It dealt in an exact way (following a question by Helmholtz) with the movement of three vertebrae, four vertebrae with one axis of symmetry and generally of 2 n vertebrae with n axes of symmetry.

In 1896 he was a member of the organizing committee of the first International Congress of Mathematicians , which took place in Zurich in 1897.

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Individual evidence

  1. Walter Gröbli in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ H. Aref, N. Rott, H. Thomann, Gröbli's Solution of the Three-Vortex Problem, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 24, 1992, pp. 1-20