Willi Rinow
Willi Ludwig August Rinow (born February 28, 1907 in Berlin ; † March 29, 1979 in Greifswald ) was a German mathematician who dealt with differential geometry and topology.
Life
Rinow was the son of a school janitor and from 1926 studied mathematics and physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin under, among others, Max Planck , Ludwig Bieberbach and Heinz Hopf , from whom he received his doctorate in 1931 ( About connections between differential geometry in large and small , Math . Journal, Vol. 35, 1932, p. 512). From 1933 he worked on the yearbook progress in mathematics in Berlin. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1937 he completed his habilitation in Berlin and was a lecturer there until 1950. It was interrupted by the Second World War , in which he worked as a cryptanalyst in Inspection 7 Group VI , i.e. the cryptanalytical group of the High Command of the Army (OKH) . On April 13, 1943, with the rank of NCO (Uffz.) , He took over the deputy head of the new Section F (Research), a group of nine people under the direction of Lt. Herbert von Denffer .
After the war, from 1946 to 1949, he first worked at Oberspreewerk Berlin, a manufacturer of radio technology, before becoming a professor at Greifswald University in 1950 . In 1959 he was director of the Institute for Pure Mathematics of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and President of the German Mathematicians Association . In 1964 he received the National Prize of the GDR III. Science and technology class. In 1966 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Together with Heinrich Grell and Karl Maruhn , he edited the series of university books for mathematics at the Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin . In 1972 he retired.
The Hopf-Rinow theorem is named after Hopf and Rinow .
Fonts
- The internal geometry of the metric spaces. Springer 1961.
- Textbook of topology (= university books for mathematics . Vol. 79). German Science Publishers, Berlin 1975.
- Rinow on the interrelationships of differential geometry on a large and small scale , Mathematische Zeitschrift, Volume 32, 1932, p. 412, dissertation
literature
- Renate Tobies : Biographical lexicon in mathematics for post-doctoral students. 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 270.
- ↑ Who was Harry Welsch? cryptocellartales.blogspot , accessed on September 11, 2018.
- ^ Willi Rinow's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rinow, Willi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rinow, Willi Ludwig August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1979 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |