Wilhelm Blaschke
| Wilhelm Blaschke | |
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| Born | 
13 September 1885 Graz  | 
| Died | 
17 March 1962 (aged 76) Hamburg  | 
| Nationality | Austrian | 
| Fields | Mathematics | 
| Institutions | University of Hamburg | 
| Alma mater | University of Vienna | 
| Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Wirtinger | 
| Doctoral students | 
Shiing-Shen Chern Luis Santaló Emanuel Sperner  | 
| Known for | 
Blaschke product Blaschke selection theorem Blaschke–Santaló inequality  | 
Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke (13 September 1885 – 17 March 1962) was an Austrian differential and integral geometer.
His students included Shiing-Shen Chern, Luis Santaló, and Emanuel Sperner.
In 1916 Blaschke published one of the first books devoted to convex sets: Circle and Sphere (Kreis und Kugel). Drawing on dozens of sources, Blaschke made a thorough review of the subject with citations within the text to attribute credit in a classical area of mathematics.
In 1933 Blaschke signed the Loyalty Oath of German Professors to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State.
Wilhelm Blaschke joined the NSDAP in 1937.[1]
Publications
- Kreis und Kugel, Leipzig, Veit 1916; 3rd edn. Berlin, de Gruyter 1956
 - Vorlesungen über Differentialgeometrie, 3 vols., Springer, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften 1921-1929 (vol. 1, Elementare Differentialgeometrie;[2] vol. 2, Affine Differentialgeometrie; vol. 3, Differentialgeometrie der Kreise und Kugeln, 1929)
 - with G. Bol: Geometrie der Gewebe. Berlin: Springer 1938[3]
 - Ebene Kinematik. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner 1938,[4] 2nd expanded edn. with Hans Robert Müller, Oldenbourg, München 1956
 - Nicht-Euklidische Geometrie und Mechanik I, II, III. Leipzig: B.G.Teubner (1942)
 - Zur Bewegungsgeometrie auf der Kugel. In: Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (1948)
 - Einführung in die Differentialgeometrie. Springer 1950,[5] 2nd expanded edn. with H. Reichardt 1960
 - with Kurt Leichtweiß: Elementare Differentialgeometrie. Berlin : Springer (5th edn. 1973)
 - Reden und Reisen eines Geometers. Berlin : VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften (1961; 2nd expanded edn.)
 - Mathematik und Leben, Wiesbaden, Steiner 1951
 - Griechische und anschauliche Geometrie, Oldenbourg 1953
 - Projektive Geometrie, 3rd edn, Birkhäuser 1954
 - Analytische Geometrie, 2nd edn., Birkhäuser 1954
 - Einführung in die Geometrie der Waben, Birkhäuser 1955[6]
 - Vorlesungen über Integralgeometrie, VEB, Berlin 1955
 - Kinematik und Quaternionen. Berlin : VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften (1960)
 - Gesammelte Werke, Thales, Essen 1985
 
Namesake
A number of mathematical theorems and concepts is associated with the name of Blaschke.
- Blaschke selection theorem
 - Blaschke–Lebesgue theorem
 - Blaschke product
 - Blaschke condition
 - Blaschke–Santaló inequality
 - Blaschke conjecture: "The only Wiedersehen manifolds in any dimension are the standard Euclidean spheres."
 
References
- ↑ Heinrich Behnke (1898-1979): zwischen Mathematik und deren Didaktik, Uta Hartmann, 2009 ISBN 9783631588604
 - ↑ Bliss, G. A. (1923). "Blaschke on Differential Geometry". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (7): 322–325. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1923-03737-3.
 - ↑ Walker, R. J. (1939). "Review: W. Blaschke and G. Bol, Geometrie der Gewebe". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (9): 652–653. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1939-07052-3.
 - ↑ Synge, J. L. (1939). "Review: W. Blaschke, Eben Kinematik". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (11): 814–815. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1939-07071-7.
 - ↑ Allendoerfer, Carl B. (1951). "Review, W. Blaschke, Einführung in die Differentialgeometrie". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (1, Part 1): 84–85. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1951-09454-9.
 - ↑ Hsiung, C. C. (1957). "Review: W. Blaschke, Einführung in die Geometrie der Waben". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (3): 203–204. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1957-10104-9.
 
- Blaschke, W. (1957). Reden und Reisen eines Geometers. East Berlin.
 
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Wilhelm Blaschke", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
 - Wilhelm Blaschke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
 
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