Josef Lense

Josef Lense ( born October 28, 1890 in Vienna, † 28 December 1985, Munich ) was an Austrian mathematician.

Lense doctorate in 1914 with Samuel Oppenheim at the University of Vienna in astronomy. In 1918, he postulated, together with Hans Thirring the Lense- Thirring named after them - effect of general relativity. This performance earned him an international reputation, especially among physicists.

1927-1928 and 1928-1946, he was Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Technical College, later the Technical University of Munich. From 1946 to 1961, he was after the retirement of George Faber director of the Mathematical Institute.

As a mathematician, he dealt with special functions for spherical functions and differential geometry in the complexes. He taught at the Technical University of Munich not only mathematicians, but many engineers and scientists in Higher Mathematics.

His doctoral include Roland Bulirsch and Hanfried Lenz.

Works

• Lectures on higher mathematics. Leibniz -Verlag in 1948 and further editions.
• The nature of mathematics and its basics. Leibniz -Verlag, 1949.
• Spherical functions. Geest and Portig 1954.
• Series expansions in mathematical physics. De Gruyter publishing house in 1947, another edition in 1953.
• Analytic projective geometry. In 1965.
• Basic concepts of calculus, ordinary differential equations, function theory, partial differential equations, elliptic functions and integrals, in Siegfried Flügge (Editor ): Handbook of Physics / Encyclopedia of Physics Mathematical Methods, Volume 1, Springer Verlag, 1956 ( and already in the Handbook of Physics 1928)