Walter Snow
Walter Schnee (born August 8, 1885 in Rawitsch , † June 10, 1958 in Leipzig ) was a German mathematician .
Life
Walter Schnee studied mathematics in Berlin from 1904 to 1908 . In 1908 he received his doctorate here as a Dr. phil. with the work on irregular power series and Dirichlet series by Friedrich Schottky and Georg Frobenius . A year later he completed his habilitation with the thesis On mean value formulas in the theory of Dirichlet series .
From 1909 to 1916 he was a private lecturer at the University of Breslau and from 1916 until he was called up in 1917 as an associate professor at the same university. After being wounded, on April 1, 1917, during the war , he was appointed professor at the University of Leipzig and released from military service. He stayed here until his retirement in 1954.
Schnee worked in Leipzig in particular in the field of number theory . His main focus was on the Riemann Hypothesis , which has not yet been proven .
During the difficult time of World War II in terms of personnel policy , snow was one of the main pillars of mathematics education at the University of Leipzig. After the university was officially reopened on February 5, 1946, teaching at the Mathematical Institute began with lectures and an internship on differential and integral calculus given by the 60-year-old Professor Schnee.
Fonts
- About magic squares and linear grid point problems , reports on the negotiations of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Mathematical and Natural Science Class, vol. 98, no.1, Akademie-Verlag Berlin (East) 1951
literature
- Herbert Beckert : Walter Snow. In: Herbert Beckert, Horst Schumann (Hrsg.): 100 Years of Mathematical Seminar at the Karl Marx University of Leipzig. Berlin 1981.
- Hans-Joachim Girlich , Karl-Heinz Schlote : The development of mathematics at the University of Leipzig. The Development of Mathematics at the University of Leipzig - Preprint ( Memento from June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 275 kB) to: Contribution to the history of the University of Leipzig (1409–2009), Volume 4: History of the Faculties.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Schnee in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walter Schnee in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Walter Schnee in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Snow, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rawitsch |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1958 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |