Erika Pannwitz

Erika Pannwitz ( born May 26, 1904 in Hohenlychen, † November 25, 1975 in Berlin) was a German mathematician who worked in the field of geometric topology. From 1953 to 1969 she headed the Central journal of mathematics, one of the world's two leading abstracting journals on mathematics.

Life and work

Erika Pannwitz visited through the tenth grade Pannwitz the open-air school in Lychen and graduated from high school in 1922 at the State Augusta School in Berlin. She studied mathematics in Berlin, and one semester in Freiburg (1925) and Göttingen ( 1928). After teaching exam in 1927 (mathematics, physics and chemistry ) she was awarded his doctorate in 1931 at Heinz Hopf ( PhD supervisor ), Erhard Schmidt and Schur Isay at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität. Her doctoral thesis, which was published two years later in Mathematische Annalen, was with opus eximium rated (this is the top grade, the more familiar term for this is summa cum laude). In her doctoral thesis Pannwitz examined so-called quadruple tendon of knots and tangles. The impetus for this study she received from Otto Toeplitz.

As of September 1930, Erika worked at Pannwitz yearbook on the progress of mathematics, the mathematical reference journal. From 1940 to 1945 she was the Encipher the Foreign Office ( like Helmut Grunsky ) and became a scientific assistant for one year at the University of Marburg. In 1946 she returned to Berlin to work on the German Academy of Sciences of the Central journal of mathematics. From 1947 she was there permanently employed, from 1953 head of the Department Zentralblatt. After reaching retirement age ( in the GDR ) in 1964, she headed the Zentralblatt office in West Berlin until 1969.

Publications

  • An elementary geometric property of tangles and knots. In: Math annals. Volume 108, 1933, pp. 629-672, online
  • With Heinz Hopf: About continuous deformations of complexes in itself. In: Math annals. Volume 108, 1933, pp. 433-465
  • A clear picture of the n-dimensional sphere into the plane. In: Mathematical messages. Volume 7, 1952, pp. 183-185
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