Herman Auerbach ( English Herman Auerbach ; October 26, 1901 , Ternopil - August 17, 1942 , Lviv ) is a Polish mathematician and teacher of Jewish origin, one of the prominent representatives of the Lviv Mathematical School .
| Hermann Auerbach | |
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| English Hererman auerbach | |
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| Place of death | Lviv |
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| Scientific field | maths |
| Place of work | Lviv University |
| Alma mater | Lviv University |
| Academic degree | Ph.D |
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Biography
Since 1919, Auerbach studied in Lodz, Ternopil and Olomouc. In 1921 he entered the law faculty of Lviv University. Yana-Casimir , but a year later began the study of mathematics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University, which he graduated in 1926.
In 1928 he defended his doctoral thesis on H-convex curves [1] . In 1935 he passed the procedure of habilitation . He worked as a senior lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Lviv University.
He was a member of a group of mathematicians who worked at the University of Lviv, created the so-called “Scottish Mathematical School” (now better known as the Lvov Mathematical School. According to the memoirs of one of its members S. Ulam
His (Auerbach) knowledge of classical mathematics was, perhaps, deeper than that of most other professors. He, for example, perfectly knew classical algebra. With his submission Mazur , I and several other mathematicians began a systematic study of Lie groups and other theories that went beyond the limits of the mathematics that is now called Polish. Auerbach had a great knowledge of geometry. I often discussed with him the theory of convex bodies, to which Mazur and I dedicated several joint works .
- Ulam S. Adventure Mathematics. Izhevsk: SRC "Regular and chaotic dynamics." 2001
After the accession of Lviv (Western Ukraine) to the Ukrainian SSR in 1939–1941, he was a professor of functional analysis at the university. After the occupation of the city by the Nazis was imprisoned in the Lviv ghetto . During the arrest by the Germans in August 1942, to be sent to the death camp, Belzhets committed suicide by taking poison with his wife and daughter.
Notes
- ↑ Herman Auerbach: O polu krzywych wypukłych o średnicach sprzężonych
Literature
- A short history of Polish mathematics by W. Z˙ elazko (Warszawa) (English)
Links
- Herman Auerbach (Eng.)