Willi Rinow

Willi Ludwig August Rinow ( born February 28, 1907 in Berlin, † March 29, 1979 in Greifswald ) was a German mathematician who worked on differential geometry and topology. Rinow was the son of a school janitor and studied from 1926 at the Humboldt University of Berlin mathematics and physics among others, Max Planck, Ludwig Bieberbach and Heinz Hopf, in which he became in 1931 a PhD ( About relationships between the differential geometry in the large and small, Math journal Vol 35, 1932, S.512 ). From 1933 he was a staff member at the annual progress of mathematics in Berlin. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP. In 1937 he completed his habilitation in Berlin and was there until 1950, then lecturer, interrupted by the activity as a mathematician at the upper Spree Berlin plant ( a manufacturer of broadcast engineering ) By 1946 until 1949.

In 1950 he became a professor at the University of Greifswald. In 1972 he retired.

According to Hopf and Rinow the set of Hopf Rinow is named.

In 1959, he was Director of the Institute of Pure Mathematics at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and President of the German Mathematical Society. In 1964 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR III. Class for science and technology.

Writings

• The internal geometry of metric spaces, Springer 1961
• Textbook of topology, Berlin, German Academic Publishers 1975
• Rinow About relationships of differential geometry in the large and small, Mathematical Journal, Volume 32, 1932, pp. 412, Dissertation

Source

• Renate Tobies: Biographical Dictionary of mathematics doctorate People, 2006