Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski

Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski (born 24 September 1894 in Breslau, † July 23, 1964 in Aarhus ) was a mathematician.

Life

His father, Hermann Rogosinski, was Justice in Wroclaw. From 1900 until graduation in 1913 visited Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski the humanistic Mary Magdalene School in his hometown. He then studied at the universities of Breslau, Freiburg and last in Göttingen under Edmund Landau. The study was interrupted by the First World War, in which Rogosinski was working as a medic. He concentrated his studies on pure mathematics (theoretical mathematics), in addition he had occupied physics and philosophy. He was interested in analytical problems, especially in series. With its written in just two weeks dissertation New application of the Pfeiffer 's method with Dirichlet divisor problem he caused a stir in 1922 the mathematical art, in which he confidently with this success grew into. Rogosinski married in 1928 in Königsberg, the childhood friend of his sister. In 1932 his son Peter was born. A native of Germany mathematician was also characterized by his English friends as "cozy".

Work

1923 Rogosinski went to Königsberg, first as a lecturer and from 1928 as associate professor. It was followed by five productive and successful years of working with Richard Brauer, Gabor Szego and Kurt Reidemeister. The families Rogosinski and Szego became friends. His first book published Rogosinski in 1930. It was an introduction to Fourier series (named after Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier ) and was written for students. The original was in 1959 translated into English and is still used today. However, after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, everything changed. 1936 Wolfgang Rogosinski the venia legendi was withdrawn. He was allowed to teach only in some Jewish schools in Berlin.

The Cambridge professors Godfrey Harold Hardy and John Edensor Littlewood, who stood with Rogosinski in contact for some time, invited him to come to England. Thus he lived since 1937, thanks to generous support from the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, with his wife and child in Cambridge, where he was involved along with Hardy and Littlewood to publications. With GH Hardy, he published from 1943 to 1949 five posts under the title Notes on Fourier series. A teaching job in Aberdeen gave him in 1941 a private modest income and the opportunity to continue to work scientifically and to publish the results. In 1945 Rogosinski as a lecturer to Newcastle. In 1947 he was appointed Professor and Head of Department in 1948. Here he could develop his excellent skills in the field of management. His reputation as a good host was well known. So he invited his PhD after each colloquium to a delicious meal. Many of his students were themselves later professors or teachers. The cordial dealings with his students and colleagues led to Rogosinski was only called world of mathematicians " Rogo "

In 1952 he published his book volume and integral. During the years in Newcastle " Rogo " tied on different trips to the USA contacts with local mathematicians. 1959 Rogosinski resigned from his position in Newcastle back. Svend Bundgaard took him to the Langer's Mathematics Institute of Aarhus. " Rogo " spent the last five years of his life. In Denmark, he was as popular as anywhere else. Guest students from around the world came to his lectures to Aarhus. After Rogosinski was in 1954 in England, became a member of the Royal Society ( Fellow of the Royal Society ), he became in 1962 a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. He undertook further tours throughout America and Mexico. His intention to go from Aarhus to Brighton to the new University of Sussex, he could not realize.

The bibliography includes Rogosinskis addition to his book publications from 50 scientific articles. He died after a long illness at the age of 69 years in Aarhus.

Swell

  • Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol 11, November, 1965
  • Maximilian Pinl: Colleagues in a dark time. III. Part, Annual Report of the German Mathematical Society, Volume 73 (1971 /72), pp. 153-208, especially pp. 185-186.

Works

  • Works by or about Wolfgang Werner Rogosinski in the catalog that German national library

Comments

  • Mathematicians ( 20th century)
  • Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
  • University teachers (University of Aarhus )
  • Emigrant from the German Empire at the time of National Socialism
  • German
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born 1894
  • Died in 1964
  • Man
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