Wilhelm Maier (mathematician)

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Wilhelm Maier (full name: Wilhelm Erwin Otto Maier ) (born January 4, 1896 in Neuenbürg , † April 10, 1990 in Winnenden , Baden-Württemberg ) was a German mathematician and university professor .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Ulm, Maier studied from 1918 at the universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Göttingen . In 1922 he completed his studies with the state examination for teaching and became a student trainee . Until 1926 he worked in the school service. In 1925 he became a student assistant in Ulm .

1927 doctorate Maier at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main to Dr. rer. nat. with a thesis on the subject of power series irrational limit values . His doctoral supervisor was Carl Ludwig Siegel . Maier then became a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt . In 1929, Maier completed his habilitation there with a thesis on the subject of Euler - Bernoulli series . 1930 Maier was a 12 month scholarship of the International Education Board of the University of Chicago with Leonard E. Dickson . He then returned briefly to Frankfurt in 1932, where he accepted a teaching position for function theory . From 1933 to 1935 he went to Purdue University in West Lafayette , Indiana , USA for a visiting professorship . In 1935 he became a lecturer at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and from 1937 to 1946 he was appointed full professor at the University of Greifswald .

Maier did military service from 1939 to 1940 and from 1943 to 1944. In 1946 he was dismissed from the University of Greifswald because of membership in the NSDAP .

From 1946 to 1948 he worked on research assignments. In 1948 he became an associate professor at the University of Rostock and in 1949 a full professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . Maier retired in 1962 .

Research topics

Maier's main interests lay in the field of analysis and number theory .

Memberships

Maier had been a member of the German Mathematicians Association since 1928 . From 1960 to 1974 Maier was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences , from 1974 a corresponding member. Maier was a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences from 1966 .

Doctoral students from Wilhelm Maier

PhD student University year Dissertation topic
Johannes Bohm Jena 1957 Investigation of the simplex content in spaces of constant curvature of any dimension
Arnd Effenberger Jena 1967 Determination of the content of convex spherical simplexes
Hans-Jürgen Glaeske Jena 1964 Functional equations in the theory of lattice functions
Friedhelm Gotze Jena 1965 Arithmetic applications of the lattice functions
Werner Kallenbach Greifswald 1939 About certain intransitive subgroups of the linear homogeneous group in four variables
Helmut Kiesewetter Jena 1958 Structure of linear functional equations related to NH Abel's theorem
Ekkehard Krätzel Jena 1963 Higher theta functions
Fritz Krause Jena 1958 To the conformal geometry of the triple orthogonal systems
Erich Müller-Pfeiffer Jena 1961 About curves that are directly similar to certain of their evolutoids
Norbert Sieber Jena 1961 Via an extension of Maxwell's representation of the spherical functions
Heinz Toparkus Jena 1969 Sums of squares and their analytical generators
Hans Triebel Jena 1962 About the Lame differential equation
Gerd change Jena 1966 On the theory of polylogarithms
Bernulf Weißbach Jena 1967 Simplex content in spaces of constant curvature
Karl Wellnitz Greifswald 1940 About a new version of the concept of mathematical probability

Works

  • Functional equations with analytical solutions . Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, 1997, ISBN 3-525-40125-6 , together with Helmut Kiesewetter
  • From Bernhard Riemann's legacy , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1975
  • Non-Euclidean volumes , Berlin: Akademie-Verl., 1967
  • From analytic number theory , Berlin: Akademie-Verl., 1963
  • Power series of irrational limit values , 1926, Berlin: de Gruyter

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wilhelm Maier (1896-1990) at histmath-heidelberg.de. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c On the history of the mathematical seminar at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 1914 to 1970 at uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b William Erwin Otto Maier in Mathematics Genealogy Project . Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  4. ↑ Wilhelm Maier, Prof. Dr. phil. habil. at saw-leipzig.de. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  5. ↑ Wilhelm Maier at haw.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved November 21, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Maier, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Wilhelm Erwin Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenbürg , Baden-Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1990
Place of death Winnenden , Baden-Wuerttemberg