Otto Haupt
Otto Haupt ( born March 5, 1887 in Würzburg, † November 10, 1988 in Bad Soden am Taunus ) was a German mathematician.
Life and work
Main was the son of a local court director. He studied after high school in 1906 in Würzburg, where he in 1906 a member of the fraternity Arminia Würzburg, 1910 his teaching position and state examination and received his doctorate in 1911 with Emil Hilb ( studies on Oszillationstheoreme ). Afterwards he studied at the University of Munich under Arnold Sommerfeld ( with a Lamont scholarship of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences) and the University of Technology and the University of Breslau (with Erhard Schmidt, Constantin Caratheodory, Ernst Steinitz, Kneser Adolf ). In 1913 he was a research assistant to Adolf Krazer in Karlsruhe, where he also completed his habilitation in 1913, but had to interrupt his scientific work due to its being convened at the outbreak of war. 1914 to 1919 he was a soldier in the First World War. In 1920 he became a full professor in Rostock, but was in 1921 appointed to the Chair by Staudt Erlangen ( as successor to Ernst Sigismund Fischer), where he remained scientifically active even after his retirement in 1953, even into old age - his last work appears in the 1980s. Most recently, he lived in a nursing home in Bad Soden.
Main -founded with his fortune, the Otto and Edith main foundation. From the interest on the endowment of the Staudt Prize has been awarded since 1991.
Haupt's research focused analysis, measure theory, differential geometry and order. He has published basic textbooks on algebra - one of the first textbooks of "modern" abstract algebra - and Analysis.
He was married to Edith Hughes since 1918.
In 1987 he was made an honorary member of the DMV.
Writings
- Introduction to Algebra. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1929, ( 3rd ed. 1956)
- Differential and integral calculus - with special consideration of recent results. De Gruyter, Berlin, 1938. ( 2nd ed. 1948)
- With Georg Aumann: Introduction to Real Analysis. 3rd edition. De Gruyter, 1974.
- With Hermann Künneth: Geometric orders. Springer 1967.
Honors
- Honorary doctorates from the universities of Bonn, Würzburg and Nantes
- Bavarian Order of Merit (1963 )