Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. Fried was also a supporter of Esperanto. He is the author of an Esperanto textbook and an Esperanto-German and German-Esperanto dictionary, first published in 1903 and republished in 1905.
Charles Ehresmann was a German-born French mathematician who worked in differential topology and category theory.
Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert was a German mathematician known for his work in topology.
Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, sometimes written as Schönflies, was a German mathematician, known for his contributions to the application of group theory to crystallography, and for work in topology.
Gustav Adolf Feodor Wilhelm Ludwig Mie was a German physicist.
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen was a Danish mathematician.
Rudolf Seeliger was a German physicist who specialized in electric discharges in gases and plasma physics.
Leo Königsberger was a German mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject.
Ernst Steinitz was a German mathematician.
William Fogg Osgood was an American mathematician.
Eugen Otto Erwin Netto was a German mathematician. He was born in Halle and died in Giessen.
Christian Georg Theodor Ruete was a German ophthalmologist born in Scharmbeck, Lower Saxony.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science is one of twelve faculties at the University of Heidelberg. It comprises the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Applied Mathematics, the School of Applied Sciences, and the Institute of Computer Science. The faculty maintains close relationships to the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) and the Mathematics Center Heidelberg (MATCH). The first chair of mathematics was entrusted to the physician Jacob Curio in the year 1547.
Harro Heuser was a German mathematician. In German-speaking countries he is best known for his popular two-volume introduction into real analysis, Lehrbuch der Analysis.
Ludwig Christian Wiener was a German mathematician who specialized in descriptive geometry. Wiener was also a physicist and philosopher. In 1863, he was the first person to identify qualitatively the internal molecular cause of Brownian motion.
Friedrich Heinrich Schur was a German mathematician who studied geometry.
In mathematics, Lehrbuch der Topologie is a book by Herbert Seifert and William Threlfall, first published in 1934 and published in an English translation in 1980. It was one of the earliest textbooks on algebraic topology, and was the standard reference on this topic for many years.
Willi Ludwig August Rinow was a German mathematician who specialized in differential geometry and topology. Rinow was the son of a schoolteacher. In 1926, he attended the Humboldt University of Berlin, studying mathematics and physics under professors such as Max Planck, Ludwig Bieberbach, and Heinz Hopf. There, he received his doctorate in 1931. In 1933, he worked at the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik in Berlin. In 1937, he joined the Nazi Party. During 1937—1940, he was an editor of the journal Deutsche Mathematik. In 1937, he became a professor in Berlin and lectured there until 1950. His lecturing was interrupted because of his work as a mathematician at the Oberspreewerk in Berlin from 1946 to 1949.
Horst Schubert was a German mathematician.
Adam Wilhelm Siegmund Günther was a German geographer, mathematician, historian of mathematics and natural scientist.
