Wilhelm Specht (mathematician)
Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Specht (born September 22, 1907 in Rastatt ; † February 19, 1985 ) was a German mathematician who dealt with group theory.
Live and act
Specht went to school in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and studied from 1925 at the Ludwig Maximilians University and the Friedrich Wilhelms University . From 1926 he was a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich . With a doctoral thesis with Issai Schur and Erhard Schmidt , he became Dr. phil. PhD .
In 1934 he went to the Albertus University in Königsberg as an assistant . In 1937 he moved to the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University , where he was in the same year habilitated . Until the end of the war he was a private lecturer in Breslau. After the war he taught at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , from 1948 with provisional appointment as professor and from 1950 as full professor for applied mathematics (the chair was newly created). He stayed there until his retirement in 1972.
Specht dealt, among other things, with the representation theory of the symmetrical group, where the Specht modules named after him (introduced in 1935) play an important role. In 1956 he wrote a textbook on group theory for the basic teaching series by Springer Verlag .
Fonts
- Group theory. Basics of mathematical Sciences. Springer, 1956.
- Elementary proofs of the prime number theorems (= university books for mathematics . Vol. 30). German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1956.
- Algebraic equations with real or complex coefficients. Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences . 1958.
literature
- H. Heineken, G. Schmeißer: Wilhelm Specht in memoriam. In: Annual report DMV. Volume 92, 1990 , pp. 153-168
- Renate Tobies : Biographical lexicon in mathematics for post-doctoral students. 2006.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Specht in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 13/1567
- ↑ Dissertation: A Generalization of the Symmetrical Group
- ^ Habilitation thesis: Representation theory of the affine group .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Specht, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Specht, Wilhelm Otto Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rastatt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th February 1985 |