Wolfgang Sternberg

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfgang J. Sternberg (born December 20, 1887 in Breslau ; died April 23, 1953 in New York City ) was a German-American mathematician.

Life

From 1906 Sternberg studied first one semester at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and then at the University of Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1912 under Adolf Kneser ( the development of arbitrary functions in mathematical physics using the method of integral equations ). He then studied two more semesters in Göttingen and from 1915 was Kneser's assistant in Breslau. In 1920 he became assistant to Oskar Perron at the University of Heidelberg and completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in the same year. In 1927 he passed his teaching degree in Göttingen. He completed his habilitation in 1929 at the University of Breslau and was then an associate professor there. As a Jew, he had to leave the university in 1935 and went to Prague. In 1939 he fled to the USA to Cornell University , where he also worked at the Ballistic Research Laboratory in Lakehurst. In 1948 he retired.

He mainly dealt with potential theory and integral equations and their application in mathematical physics .

Fonts (selection)

  • Sternberg Potential Theory , Göschen Collection , 2 volumes, de Gruyter 1925, 1926 (Volume 1: The elements of potential theory, Volume 2: The boundary value problems of potential theory)
  • Sternberg, Turner Linn Smith The theory of potential and spherical harmonics , University of Toronto Press 1944

literature

  • Maximilian Pinl Colleagues in a Dark Time , Annual Report DMV, Volume 71, 1969, pp. 209-210
  • Sternberg, Wolfgang , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 356
  • Sternberg, Wolfgang , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1129

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sternberg, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sternberg, Wolfgang J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1953
Place of death New York City