Georg Nöbeling
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Georg August Nöbeling (12 November 1907 – 16 February 2008) was a German mathematician.
Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics in Göttingen and Vienna, where he was a student of Karl Menger and received his PhD in 1931 on a generalization of the embedding theorem, which for one special case can be visualized by the Menger sponge.[1] Nöbeling worked and researched in Menger's Mathematical Colloquium with Kurt Gödel, Franz Alt, Abraham Wald, Olga Taussky-Todd and others.
In 1933, he moved to Erlangen, where he obtained a professorship at the University of Erlangen in 1940. His work focused on analysis, topology, and geometry. 1968/1969 he solved Specker's theorem on abelian groups.
As Rector (1962–1963) of the University of Erlangen he oversaw the merge with the business college in Nuremberg.[2] He also served twice as the chairman of the German Mathematical Society and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He celebrated his 100th birthday in 2007.[3][4]
Publications (selected)[]
- Georg Nöbeling: "Über eine n-dimensionale Universalmenge im (on a n-dimensional universal set for metric spaces in ." Mathematische Annalen 104 (1931), pp. 71–80.
- Georg Nöbeling: "Verallgemeinerung eines Satzes von E. Specker (Generalization of a Theorem by E. Specker)". Inventiones mathematicae 6 (1968), pp. 41–55.
Notes[]
- ^ Karl Sigmund:"Kühler Abschied von Europa" - Wien 1938 und der Exodus der Mathematik, pp. 16 seq.
- ^ Source: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-02-12. Retrieved 2007-11-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Zum Geburtstag des Mathematikers Prof. Dr. Georg Nöbeling" (Press release) (in German). Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. 2008-01-14. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ^ Wulf-Dieter Geyer: "Georg Nöbeling zum 100. Geburtstag," Akademie Aktuell: Zeitschrift der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften No. 23 (04/2007), 36–38.
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