Walther von Dyck
Walther Franz Anton von Dyck ( born December 6, 1856 in Munich, † November 5, 1934 ) was a German mathematician.
Life
Walther Dyck was the son of Hermann Dyck, director of the School of Applied Arts in Munich, and his son had artistic interests. He studied in Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, and in 1879 in Munich ( regularly branched Riemann surfaces and defined by them irrationalities over) his doctorate under Felix Klein. In 1880 he followed Klein as an assistant to Leipzig, where he habilitated in 1882. In 1884 he became professor at the Royal Bavarian Technical University of Munich ( now the Technical University ), where he improved the mathematical and engineering education from 1903 to 1906 and 1919 to 1925 was rector. On March 5, 1901, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and levied under the Order Statutes as a knight of Dyck in the personal nobility. In 1887 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.
He was also co-founder ( with Oskar von Miller and his colleagues at the Technical University of Munich, Carl von Linde ) of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. One of his most famous student was Martin Wilhelm Kutta. He is known among other things named after him Dyck languages. As secretary of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, he began in 1906 with the publication of the works of Johannes Kepler.
As a mathematician, he was committed to the research directions of his teacher, Felix Klein and concentrated especially on group theory and function theory. He also worked on differential geometry and worked on the set of Gauss -Bonnet.
In 1908 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome about the project of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences. In the Nazi era it the address of Walther von Dyck -Platz 1 received in honor of the main building of the Technical University of Munich on Arcisstrasse
Works
- Catalogue of mathematical and mathematical- physical models, apparatus and instruments.: Together with Addendum / with a foreword by Joachim Fischer. - Reproduction. Olms, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-487-09865-2.