Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs

Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs ( born May 19, 1915 in Munich, † 29 April 1997 in Ithaca ) was a German - American mathematician.

Fox made ​​in 1933 at the Johannes Gymnasium in Breslau the Abitur. He then went to study in Cambridge. In 1941 he received his doctorate there in Ingham. Since 1950 he was a professor at Cornell University.

Main area of ​​work of Fuchs was the theory of functions, in particular the Nevanlinnasche value distribution theory. Here he delivered fundamental contributions, many of them in joint work with Edrei. Thus the ellipse set of Edrei and Fuchs characterizes the possible Nevanlinnadefekte two values ​​for meromorphic functions of order at most 1 together with Hayman sparked fox the reverse problem of Nevanlinna theory for entire functions. ( For meromorphic functions, it was later released by his pupil Drasin. )

But Fuchs also worked in other areas. Thus, a work dealing with Erdős with a problem of additive number theory.

Fox was Guggenheim Fellow (1955) and Fulbright - Hays Fellow (1973). In 1978 he received the Humboldt Prize. In 1962 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm (On a conjecture of G. Polya Concerning gap series).