Heinrich Behnke

Heinrich Behnke ( born October 9, 1898 in Hamburg, † October 10, 1979 in Münster ) was a German mathematician at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

Behnke was known internationally for his research in complex analysis ( " Münstersche school of complex analysis "). The older name of complex analysis is function theory.

Life

He studied mathematics at the Georg- August University in Göttingen, where he attended lectures among others, David Hilbert, Edmund Georg Hermann Landau and Erich Hecke. He sent his thesis " About analytic functions and algebraic numbers " to the newly founded University of Hamburg, was changed to Erich Hecke before. She was received there in May 1922.

After completing his doctorate at the University of Hamburg, he moved briefly to the University of Heidelberg, where he met his future wife Aenne Albersheim, whom he married in May 1925. Then he went back to the University of Hamburg, where he habilitated in 1924. His wife died in 1927 at the birth of their only child together.

Behnke was appointed professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, where he remained until his retirement in 1967 and beyond working in the same year. He married in 1932 Elizabeth Hartmann, who had studied mathematics in Jena, Göttingen and Münster.

1934 published Behnke and Peter Thullen the essay " theory of functions of several complex variables ". Thullen but had to leave Germany in 1933 because he was persecuted by the Nazis. Although Munster was destroyed during the war, Behnke continued to hold lectures. After the war he became Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of Science, University of Münster until 1949. From 1954 to 1958 he was president of the International Mathematical Teaching Commission ( IMUK ) and 1964 and 1965 President of the German Mathematical Society. In addition to his research activities, Behnke has also always taken care of the cohesion of university and higher school.

His students include Charles Stein, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Reinhold Remmert, Hans Grauert, Friedrich Sommer and Uwe Storch. He died on 10 October 1979 in Münster.

1978 was published by Cambridge University Press Behnke autobiography " semester reports - A Life at German universities in the course of time". The scientific estate Behnke is kept in the University Archives of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

Honors

Memberships

  • Member of the Learned Leopoldina Academy (since 1936)

Writings

  • With Peter Thullen: theory of functions of several complex variables, Springer Verlag, results of mathematics and its applications, 1934, 2nd edition, composed by Reinhold Remmert 1970
  • With Frederick Sommer: theory of functions of a complex variable, Springer Verlag, 3rd edition 1965
  • Lectures on Differential Geometry, Muenster, Aschendorff, 7th edition 1966
  • Lectures on ordinary differential equations, Münster, Aschendorff, 4th Edition 1963
  • Lectures on algebra, Münster, Aschendorff, 3rd edition 1958
  • Lectures on Number Theory, Münster, Aschendorff, 5th Edition 1961
  • Lecture on classical function theory, Aschendorff
  • Lecture on Calculus, Aschendorff
  • Publisher Horst Tietz and others: Fischer Lexicon Mathematics, 2 volumes, first in 1964
  • Editor with Hans -Georg Steiner: Mathematical teaching at German universities and schools, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1967
  • Publisher with Kuno Fladt, Wilhelm Süss: Broad Mathematics, 3 volumes, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1958 ( English translation by MIT Press )
  • Publisher with Detlef Laugwitz: Mathematics for freshmen, BI university paperback
  • Editor with K. Kopfermann: Festschrift for commemoration of Karl Weierstrass. 1815-1965, Scientific Proceedings of the Association for Research of North Rhine -Westphalia, Vol 33, Cologne and Opladen: West German publishing house, 1966
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