Walter Schnee

Walter Snow ( born August 8, 1885 in Ravich, now Rawicz, † 10 June 1958 in Leipzig ) was a German mathematician.

Life

Walter Snow studied mathematics from 1904 to 1908 in Berlin. 1908 was here his PhD. with the work over irregular power series and Dirichlet series with Friedrich Schottky and Georg Frobenius. A year later, he qualified to work with resources value formulas in the theory of Dirichlet series.

From 1909 to 1916 he was a lecturer at the University of Breslau, and from 1916 until he was called up in 1917 associate professor at the same university. After being wounded he was on April 1, 1917, still called during the war, as associate professor at the University of Leipzig and exempted from military service. Here he remained until his retirement in 1954.

Snow worked in Leipzig in particular in the field of number theory. His main focus was the up to now unproven Riemann Hypothesis.

In the personnel policy difficult times of the Second World War Snow was one of the mainstays of mathematics education at the University of Leipzig. According to the official reopening of the University on February 5, 1946, the teaching began at the Mathematical Institute with lectures and an internship in the differential and integral calculus of the 60th Extra Ordinary snow.

Publications (selection )

• About magic squares and linear lattice point problems, reports of the proceedings of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Class, Vol 98, Issue 1, Akademie- Verlag, Berlin (East) 1951