Herman Auerbach

Herman Auerbach ( born October 26, 1901 in Ternopil, † August 17 1942 in the Belzec extermination camp ) was a Polish mathematician and one of the leading representatives of the Lviv mathematicians school.

Life

Auerbach was born in 1901, the son of Philip and Julia Auerbach in the then Austrian and Ukrainian today Ternopil. The father was a PhD attorney. Auerbach attended school in Lodz, Ternopil and Olomouc until 1919. Due to health reasons he could begin his studies at the Law Faculty of the John Casimir University in Lviv in 1921. As early as next year moved to Auerbach Department of Mathematics, where he completed the study in 1926. In 1928 he received his doctorate on the subject of H -convex curves.

Auerbach received his habilitation at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences ujk in 1935 and in 1939 professor at the University of Lviv, until he was arrested by the Germans in Lemberg Ghetto in 1942 because of his Jewish ancestry and then murdered in August 1942 in the Belzec extermination camp.

The lemma of Auerbach and the Auerbach term basis are associated with his name.