Erich Schönhardt is a German mathematician. Best known for the so-called Schönhardt polyhedron — an example of a nonconvex polyhedron that cannot be divided into tetrahedra without introducing additional vertices . [2]
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Biography
He studied at the University of Stuttgart , and graduated from graduate school at the University of Tübingen , receiving a Ph.D. in 1920 for his dissertation in under the guidance of .
In the 1930s, he was assistant professor of the Führer ( Nazi leader of the faculty) in Tübingen. In particular, he was responsible for the conviction and subsequent dismissal of his colleague Erich Kamke for marrying a Jewish woman . [3]
He returned to the University of Stuttgart in 1936 and was the rector there in 1939-1942. [4] Was the permanent editor of Deutsche Mathematik ; In addition to mathematical articles, this journal published agitational articles giving a Nazi point of view on the relationship between mathematics and the nation.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 143949500 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Schönhardt, E. (1928), " Über die Zerlegung von Dreieckspolyedern in Tetraeder ", Math. Annalen T. 98: 309–312, doi : 10.1007 / BF01451597 , < http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/img/?IDD==27796 > (inaccessible link)
- Gal Segal, Sanford L. (2003), Mathematicians under the Nazis , Princeton University Press, p. 105, 176, ISBN 978-0-691-00451-8
- ↑ Rectorate of the University of the Stuttgart , Historic Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities .