Banesh Hoffmann

Banesh Hoffmann ( born September 6, 1906 in Richmond, North Yorkshire, † August 5, 1986 ) was a British mathematician and physicist.

Life

Hoffmann studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Oxford University and in 1929 at Princeton University, where he received his doctorate in 1932 at Oswald Veblen on projective theory of relativity. 1935 to 1937 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study at Albert Einstein. Here is the joint work emerged with Einstein and Leopold Infeld on the approximate equation of motion of N point-like bodies in general relativity theory ( Einstein -Infeld -Hoffmann equation), which made him known. From 1937 he was at Queen 's College, City University of New York, where he became professor in 1952 and retired in the 1960s, but until the 1970s lectured.

In 1947 he was again at the Institute of Advanced Study at Einstein.

He is the author of a biography of Einstein, and a band of memories of Einstein with Helen Dukas, the former secretary of Einstein.

In 1964 he was awarded the Gravity Research Foundation. In 1973 he was awarded the Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Mathematical Society. He was also a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Writings

• Albert Einstein, Creator and Rebel, Viking Press, 1979 ( with the collaboration of Helen Dukas ) German edition Albert Einstein. Creator and Rebel, Dietikon Zurich, Belser 1976