Karl Löwner and His Student Lipman Bers – Pre-war Prague Mathematicians - Martina Bečvářová, Ivan Netuka

Karl Löwner and His Student Lipman Bers – Pre-war Prague Mathematicians

Buch
310 Seiten
2015
EMS Press (Verlag)
978-3-03719-144-6 (ISBN)
79,00 inkl. MwSt
This monograph is devoted to two distinguished mathematicians, Karel Löwner (1893–1968) and Lipman Bers (1914–1993), whose lives are dramatically interlinked with key historical events of the 20th century. K. Löwner, Professor of Mathematics at the German University in Prague (Czechoslovakia), was dismissed from his position because he was a Jew, and emigrated to the USA in 1939 (where he changed his name to Charles Loewner). Earlier, he had published several outstanding papers in complex analysis and a masterpiece on matrix functions. In particular, his ground-breaking parametric method in geometric function theory from 1923, which led to Löwner’s celebrated differential equation, brought him world-wide fame and turned out to be a cornerstone in de Branges’ proof of the Bieberbach conjecture. Unexpectedly, Löwner’s differential equation has gained recent prominence with the introduction of a conformally invariant stochastic process called stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE) by O. Schramm in 2000. SLE features in two Fields Medal citations from 2006 and 2010. L. Bers was the final Prague Ph.D. student of K. Löwner. His dissertation on potential theory (1938), completed shortly before his emigration and long thought to be irretrievably lost, was found in 2006. It is here made accessible for the first time, with an extensive commentary, to the mathematical community.
This monograph presents an in-depth account of the lives of both mathematicians, with special emphasis on the pre-war period. Löwner’s teaching activities and professional achievements are presented in the context of the prevailing complex political situation and against the background of the wider development of mathematics in Europe. Each of his publications is accompanied by an extensive commentary, tracing the origin and motivation of the problem studied, and describing the state-of-art at the time of the corresponding mathematical field. Special attention is paid to the impact of the results obtained and to the later development of the underlying ideas, thus connecting Löwner’s achievements to current research activity. The text is based on an extensive archival search, and most of the archival findings appear here for the first time.
Anyone with an interest in mathematics and the history of mathematics will enjoy reading this book about two famous mathematicians of the 20th century.
Reihe/Serie Heritage of European Mathematics
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Einbandart gebunden
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Schlagworte 20th century history of mathematics • Geometric Function Theory • Mathematical Analysis • matrix functions • Potential Theory
ISBN-10 3-03719-144-9 / 3037191449
ISBN-13 978-3-03719-144-6 / 9783037191446
Zustand Neuware
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