Friedrich Wilhelm Levi

Friedrich Wilhelm Levi ( born February 6, 1888 in Mulhouse, Alsace, † January 1, 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German mathematician.

Life

In 1911 he received his doctorate with a thesis on integral domains and third-degree body with Heinrich Weber at the University of Strasbourg. From 1920 to 1935 he taught at the University of Leipzig.

In 1935, he fled from the Nazis from Germany and accepted an offer from the University of Calcutta as head of the mathematics department. His mother and sister remained in Germany and were murdered in the Holocaust.

In 1948, Levi Professor of Mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. In 1952 he returned to Germany and became a professor at the Free University of Berlin and later at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg.

According to R. Narasimhan he had considerable influence on the development of mathematics in India, in particular through the introduction of modern algebra in his time at the University of Calcutta.

Works

• Abelian groups with countable elements. B. G. Teubner, Leipzig. ( Habilitation thesis, University of Leipzig)
• Geometric configurations. Hirzel, Leipzig 1929.
• Reinhold Baer and Frederick Levi edges of topological spaces. Hirzel, Leipzig 1930.
• Algebra. University of Calcutta, Calcutta, 1942.