Wolfgang Gaschütz
Wolfgang Gaschütz (born June 11, 1920 in Karlshof , Oderbruch ; † November 7, 2016 in Kiel ) was a German mathematician who dealt with group theory, especially the theory of finite groups .
Life
Gaschütz moved with his family to Berlin in 1931, where he passed his Abitur in 1938. He then worked as an artillery officer in World War II, which ended for him in 1945 near Kiel, where he began his studies. He received his doctorate in 1949 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel with Karl-Heinrich Weise on a topic from group theory (on the subgroup of finite groups). In 1953 he completed his habilitation in Kiel, where he became a dietician in 1956 and was given a full professorship in 1963. He stayed in Kiel until his retirement in 1988 and turned down offers to Karlsruhe and Mainz. He was visiting professor at various universities in Europe (Queen Mary College London 1965 and 1970, Padua 1966, Florence 1971, Naples 1974, University of Warwick 1967, 1973 and 1977), the USA ( Michigan State University 1963, University of Chicago 1968) and in Australia ( Australian National University in Canberra).
Gaschütz built a school of group theorists in Kiel, where there had been a gap in algebra teaching since Ernst Steinitz . His turn to group theory was brought about during his studies by the textbook by Andreas Speiser and he was influenced by Helmut Wielandt in the 1950s . He is best known for his research on the Frattini subgroup , questions of complementability, group cohomology and the theory of finite solvable groups . He is the founder of the theory of formations, Schunck and fitting classes.
Gaschütz organized the Oberwolfach conferences on group theory for many years with Bertram Huppert and Karl Gruenberg . In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from the Francisk Scorina Gomel State University in Belarus. Joachim Neubüser is one of his doctoral students .
He had been married since 1943.
Fonts
- Lectures on subgroups of Sylow type in finite soluble groups , Canberra, Australian National University 1979 (lectures)
- On the theory of finite solvable groups , Mathematische Zeitschrift, Volume 80, 1963, pp. 300-305, online
- Praefrattinigruppen , Arch. Math., Volume 13, 1962, pp. 418-426
- About the subgroup of finite groups , Math. Zeitschrift, Volume 58, 1953, pp. 160-170, online
- On the extension theory of finite groups , J. pure applied. Math. Volume 190, 1952, pp. 93-107, online
literature
- Gaschütz My way , Proc. F. Scorina Gomel State Univ. No. 3, 2000, 7-10
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Wolfgang Gaschütz. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . (from LA Shemetkov, R. Schmidt)
- Floating university. Memories of W. Gaschütz on the beginnings of mathematics at the University of Kiel in the post-war period. Retrieved August 26, 2013 .
- Wolfgang Gaschütz in the Kiel list of scholars
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice Wolfgang Gaschütz , FAZ , November 12, 2016
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaschütz, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlshof , Oderbruch |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 2016 |
| Place of death | Kiel |