Georg Faber

George Faber ( born April 5, 1877 in Kaiserslautern, † March 7, 1966 in Munich) was a German mathematician.

Life and work

Faber studied from 1896 to 1901 at the Universities of Munich and Göttingen mathematics and physics and a doctorate in 1902 at the University of Munich with a thesis on series expansions of analytic functions. In 1905 he qualified as a professor in Würzburg with a record of power series of several variables.

Faber worked as a professor of mathematics at Tübingen (1909-1910), Stuttgart (1910-1912), Königsberg (1912-1913), Strasbourg (1913-1916) and TH Munich ( 1916-1946 ).

In 1921 he was elected a full member of the mathematics and science class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

His scientific importance lies mainly in his ideas about the polynomial expansion of analytic functions in a bounded by a smooth curve area. These polynomials are determined solely by the area and hot Faber polynomials. Most of the work include the Faber Complex Analysis ( complex analysis ).

In 1923, he showed how even independently Edgar Krahn the Rayleigh - Faber - Krahn inequalities in the two-dimensional case.

He published the collected works of Elwin Bruno Christoffel and volumes 14-16 of the works of Leonhard Euler. In his time in Munich, he major role in the mathematical education of engineers, physicists and mathematicians had.

When the war ended in 1945, he was appointed by the military government to the Rector of the Technical University. As such, he sought the resumption of lectures, which took place in the summer term 1946. He then opened his emeritus, but took more active mathematical life of the TH part.

He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1956 and 1959, the Bavarian Order of Merit.