Lothar Collatz
Lothar Collatz | |
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 Lothar Collatz (Photo courtesy MFO) | |
| Born | July 6, 1910 |
| Died | September 26, 1990 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | German |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Klose Erhard Schmidt |
| Doctoral students | Frank Natterer |
Lothar Collatz (July 6, 1910 – September 26, 1990) was a German mathematician, born in Arnsberg, Westphalia. In 1937 he posed the Collatz conjecture, which remains unsolved.
The Collatz-Wielandt formula, for positive matrices important in the Perron–Frobenius theorem, is named after him.
Collatz studied at different universities in Germany including the University of Berlin under Alfred Klose, receiving his doctorate in 1935 for a dissertation entitled Das Differenzenverfahren mit höherer Approximation für lineare Differentialgleichungen (The finite difference method with higher approximation for linear differential equations).
For his many contributions to the field, Collatz had many honors bestowed upon him in his lifetime, including:
- election to the German Academy of Scientists Leopoldina, the academy at Bologna and Modena in Italy.
- honorary member of the Hamburg Mathematical Society
- honorary degrees by the University of São Paulo, the Technical University of Vienna, the University of Dundee in Scotland, Brunel University in England, the Technical University of Hanover, and the Technical University of Dresden.
He died in Varna, Bulgaria, while attending a mathematics conference.
Selected works
- Das Differenzenverfahren mit höherer Approximation für lineare Differentialgleichungen (= Schriften des mathematischen Seminars und des Instituts für angewandte Mathematik der Universität Berlin - Band 3/Heft 1), Leipzig 1935
- Eigenwertprobleme und ihre numerische Behandlung. Leipzig 1945
- Eigenwertaufgaben mit technischen Anwendungen. Leipzig 1949, 1963
- Numerische Behandlung von Differentialgleichungen. Berlin 1951,[1] 1955[2] (Eng. trans. 1966)
- Differentialgleichungen für Ingenieure. Stuttgart 1960
- with Wolfgang Wetterling: Optimierungsaufgaben Berlin 1966, 1971 (Eng. trans. 1975)
- Funktionalanalysis und Numerische Mathematik. Berlin 1964
- Differentialgleichungen. Eine Einführung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Anwendungen. Stuttgart, Teubner Verlag, 1966, 7th edn. 1990
- with Julius Albrecht: Aufgaben aus der angewandten Mathematik I. Gleichungen in einer und mehreren Variablen. Approximationen. Berlin 1972
- Numerische Methoden der Approximationstheorie. vol. 2. Vortragsauszüge der Tagung über Numerische Methoden der Approximationstheorie vom 3.-9. Juni 1973 im Mathematischen Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Stuttgart 1975
- Approximationstheorie: Tschebyscheffsche Approximation und Anwendungen. Teubner 1973
Bibliography
- J Albrecht, P Hagedorn and W Velte, Lothar Collatz (German), Numerical treatment of eigenvalue problems, Vol. 5, Oberwolfach, 1990 (Birkhäuser, Basel, 1991), viii-ix.
- R Ansorge, Lothar Collatz (6 July 1910 – 26 September 1990) (German), Mitt. Ges. Angew. Math. Mech. No. 1 (1991), 4-9.
- U Eckhardt, Der Einfluss von Lothar Collatz auf die angewandte Mathematik, Numerical mathematics, Sympos., Inst. Appl. Math., Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg, 1979 (Birkhäuser, Basel-Boston, Mass., 1979), 9-23.
- L Elsner and K P Hadeler, Lothar Collatz - on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Linear Algebra Appl. 68 (1985), vi; 1-8.
- R B Guenther, Obituary : Lothar Collatz, 1910-1990, Aequationes Math. 43 (2-3) (1992), 117-119.
- H Heinrich, Zum siebzigsten Geburtstag von Lothar Collatz, Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 60 (5) (1980), 274-275.
- G Meinardus, G Nürnberger, Th Riessinger and G Walz, In memoriam : the work of Lothar Collatz in approximation theory, J. Approx. Theory 67 (2) (1991), 119-128.
- G Meinardus and G Nürnberger, In memoriam : Lothar Collatz (July 6, 1910 – September 26, 1990), J. Approx. Theory 65 (1) (1991), i; 1-2.
- J R Whiteman, In memoriam : Lothar Collatz, Internat. J. Numer. Methods Engrg. 31 (8) (1991), 1475-1476.
Citations
- ^ Milne, William Edmund (1953). "Review: Numerische Behandlung von Differentialgleichungen, by L. Collatz, 1951". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1): 94–96. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1953-09668-9.
- ^ Milne, William Edmund (1956). "Review: Numerische Behandlung von Differentialgleichungen, by L. Collatz, 1955". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1): 74. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1956-09990-2.
Sources
- Lothar Collatz (July 6, 1910–September 26, 1990), Journal of Approximation Theory, Vol 65, Issue 1, April 1991, Page II by Günter Meinardus and Günther Nürnberger
- Collatz, Lothar (1942), "Einschließungssatz für die charakteristischen Zahlen von Matrize", Mathematische Zeitschrift, 48 (1): 221–226, doi:10.1007/BF01180013
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Lothar Collatz", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Lothar Collatz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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