Wolfgang Jurkat
Wolfgang Bernhard Jurkat (born March 26, 1929 in Gerdauen ; † January 7, 2017 in Ulm ) was a German mathematician and former university professor . The focus of his work was on analysis and number theory .
Career
Jurkat studied at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1950 under the supervision of George G. Lorentz and Konrad Knopp . Until 1953 he worked as an assistant and lecturer at the university before he moved to research for two years at the University of Cincinnati . In the following years he commuted between Germany and the United States and was appointed professor at Syracuse University in 1958 . In the following years he returned to Germany several times as a visiting professor and taught at the universities in Marburg , Göttingen , Aachen , Cologne , Bonn and Ulm .
After Jurkat had changed to the John Raymond French Chair at Syracuse University in 1976 , he was also appointed professor at Ulm University in 1977. There he initiated a new course in business mathematics in Germany. In the following years he held the two professorships in parallel, interrupted by visiting professorships at the University of Southern California and the University of Strasbourg . In 1990 he stopped teaching.
Jurkat worked in the fields of analysis and number theory. He wrote books on Euclidean geometry and meromorphic differential equations. As a professor, he oversaw the academic development of a number of well-known scientists. These include names such as Donald A. Lutz , Harold Benzinger , Gary Sampson , Melvin Friske , Werner Kratz , Hans-Joachim Zwiesler , Dirk Jens Nonnenmacher and Reiner Knizia . He was a member of the American Mathematical Society and the German Mathematicians Association .
Fonts
- with Hans-Egon Richert : An improvement of Selberg's sieve method I ( PDF file, 4.1 MB), Acta Arithmetica 11, 1965, pp. 217–240 (English)
- Meromorphic differential equations , Lecture Notes in Mathematics Vol. 637, Springer Verlag, 1978
Web links
- Wolfgang Jurkat at Syracuse University
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jurkat, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jurkat, Wolfgang Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gerdauen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2017 |
| Place of death | Ulm |