Nationality German Fields Mathematics | Role Mathematician Name Oswald Teichmuller Doctoral advisor Helmut Hasse | |
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Born 13 June 1913
Nordhausen, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire ( 1913-06-13 ) Alma mater University of Gottingen Known for Teichmuller mapping
Teichmuller space Died September 11, 1943, Dnieper Books Gesammelte Abhandlungen - Collected Papers Similar People Lars Ahlfors, John Tukey, Helmut Hasse | ||
Education University of Gottingen | ||
Paul Julius Oswald Teichmüller (18 June 1913 – ca. September 1943) was a German mathematician who introduced quasiconformal mappings and differential geometric methods into complex analysis.
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According to Friedrich L. Bauer,
" ... he was a genius but as an extreme Nazi shamefully stood out with his agitation against Landau and Courant."Life
Teichmüller was born in Nordhausen, in the Prussian Province of Saxony (present-day Thuringia). He grew up in Sankt Andreasberg and earned his Abitur in 1931. In the same year he started studying mathematics at the University of Göttingen. Among his professors were Richard Courant, Hermann Weyl, Otto Neugebauer, Gustav Herglotz, and Edmund Landau. Teichmüller received his doctorate in 1935 under Helmut Hasse.
He joined the Nazi Party in July 1931 and became a member of the Sturmabteilung in August 1931. In 1933 he organized the boycott of his Jewish professor Edmund Landau. In 1936 and 1937 he attended lectures by Nevanlinna, who sympathized with the Third Reich, where he was a guest professor and, like Brouwer, was considered by the Nazis as "politically reliable" (Rudolf Heß was in charge of the assessment). Under the influence of Nevanlinna, Teichmüller specialized in geometric function theory. Upon personal authorisation from the Führer, he joined the Wehrmacht in 1939 and was killed fighting on the Eastern Front.
Mathematics
The theory of Teichmüller spaces (a moduli space theory for Riemann surfaces) was developed by Lars Ahlfors, Lipman Bers and others. The Teichmüller representative or Teichmüller character is a construction with p-adic numbers. The Teichmüller cocycle is associated to a simple algebra.
Much of Teichmüller's work was published in Deutsche Mathematik, a highly ideological journal founded by Ludwig Bieberbach that contained not only scholarly articles but also race propaganda. Teichmüller co-edited the journal since 1938. Because of the nature of the journal, his papers were hard to find in modern libraries before the publication of his collected works.