Alma mater Universitat Wien Education University of Vienna Residence Austria | Name Edmund Hlawka Fields Mathematics Role Mathematician | |
 | ||
Born November 5, 1916
Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Austria ( 1916-11-05 ) Institutions Universitat Wien
Technische Universitat Wien Doctoral students Rainer Burkard
Walter Knodel
Hermann Maurer
Harald Niederreiter
Gert Sabidussi
Klaus Schmidt
Wolfgang M. Schmidt Known for Minkowski–Hlawka theorem Died February 19, 2009, Vienna, Austria Books The Theory of Uniform Distribution People also search for Peter M. Gruber, Nikolaus Hofreiter | ||
Doctoral advisor Nikolaus Hofreiter | ||
Edmund Hlawka (November 5, 1916, Bruck an der Mur, Styria – February 19, 2009) was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Hlawka did most of his work at the Vienna University of Technology. He was also a visiting professor at Princeton University and the Sorbonne. Hlawka died on February 19, 2009 in Vienna.
Hlawka studied at the University of Vienna from 1934 to 1938, when he gained his doctorate. Among his PhD students were Rainer Burkard, later to become president of the Austrian Society for Operations Research, graph theorist Gert Sabidussi, Cole Prize winner Wolfgang M. Schmidt, Walter Knödel who became one of the first German computer science professors, and Hermann Maurer, also a computer scientist. Through these and other students, Hlawka has nearly 1500 academic descendants. Hlawka was awarded the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in 2007.
