Werner von Koppenfels (mathematician)
Werner Georg Martin von Koppenfels (born November 7, 1904 in Dresden , † August 31, 1945 in Astrakhan ) was a German mathematician who dealt with conformal mapping .
Life
Werner von Koppenfels came from the noble family von Koppenfels .
He studied from 1923 to 1928 at the Technische Hochschule Dresden , the TH Stuttgart and the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1928 under Richard Courant (on the existence of solutions to linear partial differential equations of the elliptical type). Then he was Georg Prange's assistant at the TH Hannover , where he completed his habilitation in 1934 and was a private lecturer there. From October 26th to 28th, 1930 von Koppenfels took part in the guest conference of the Jena Mathematical Society in the Abbeanum at the University of Jena .
Von Koppenfels dealt with the applications of conformal mapping and mathematical and theoretical physics. In 1933, for example, he published an article in the Zeitschrift für Physik on the perturbative treatment of the Stark effect in quantum mechanics .
From 1937 to 1940 von Koppenfels was a lecturer at the University of Würzburg and from 1940 extraordinary and from 1943 full professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Brno . One of his doctoral students in Brno is Helmut Epheser , later a professor at the TH Hannover .
Von Koppenfels died after serving in the Volkssturm on August 31, 1945 in a military hospital in Astrakhan as a Soviet prisoner of war.
Fonts (selection)
- with Friedemann Stallmann: Practice of conformal mapping, basic teachings of the mathematical sciences , Springer 1959.
literature
- TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1956, Hanover: TH Hanover 1956, p. 14.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Toeppel's life and career data, historical list of members of the DMV 1890-1990, Munich 1991
- ↑ Werner von Koppenfels in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ His analysis lecture he later edited at Springer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koppenfels, Werner von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koppenfels, Werner Georg Martin von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1945 |
| Place of death | Astrakhan |