Georg Nöbeling
{{short description|German mathematician}}
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University of Vienna
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Otto Haupt
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Georg August Nöbeling (12 November 1907 – 16 February 2008) was a German mathematician.
Education and career
Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics at University of Göttingen between 1927 and 1929 and University of Vienna, where he was a student of Karl Menger and received his PhD in 1931 on a generalization of the embedding theorem, which for one special case can be visualized by the Menger sponge.Karl Sigmund:[http://www.oemg.ac.at/Tagungen/2001/KuehlerAbschied.pdf "Kühler Abschied von Europa" - Wien 1938 und der Exodus der Mathematik], pp. 16 seq. Nöbeling worked and researched in Menger's Mathematical Colloquium with Kurt Gödel, Franz Alt, Abraham Wald, Olga Taussky-Todd and others.
In 1933, he moved to the University of Erlangen, where he habilitated in 1935 under Otto Haupt and obtained a professorship at the same place in 1940. His work focused on analysis, topology, and geometry. 1968/1969 he solved Specker's theorem on abelian groups.
As Rector (1962–1963) of the University of Erlangen he oversaw the merge with the business college in Nuremberg.Source: {{cite web |url=http://www.uni-erlangen.de/infocenter/presse/pressemitteilungen/2007/nachrichten_2007/11_07/263noebeling.shtml |title=Zum Geburtstag des Mathematikers Prof. Dr. Georg Nöbeling |accessdate=2007-11-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130212064342/http://www.uni-erlangen.de/infocenter/presse/pressemitteilungen/2007/nachrichten_2007/11_07/263noebeling.shtml |archivedate=2013-02-12 }} He also served twice as the chairman of the German Mathematical Society and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He celebrated his 100th birthday in 2007.{{cite press release|title = Zum Geburtstag des Mathematikers Prof. Dr. Georg Nöbeling|publisher = Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg|date = 2008-01-14|language = German|url = http://www.presse.uni-erlangen.de/infocenter/presse/pressemitteilungen/2007/nachrichten_2007/11_07/263noebeling.shtml|accessdate = 2008-02-24}}Wulf-Dieter Geyer: "[https://faubox.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/dl/fiMeTbcTm4yAzxwEEgsAv8pY Georg Nöbeling zum 100. Geburtstag]," Akademie Aktuell: Zeitschrift der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften [http://www.badw.de/aktuell/akademie_aktuell/2007/heft4/index.html No. 23 (04/2007)], 36–38.
Publications (selected)
- Georg Nöbeling: "Über eine n-dimensionale Universalmenge im (on a n-dimensional universal set for metric spaces in ." Mathematische Annalen 104 (1931), pp. 71–80.
- Georg Nöbeling: "Verallgemeinerung eines Satzes von E. Specker (Generalization of a Theorem by E. Specker)". Inventiones mathematicae 6 (1968), pp. 41–55.
See also
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External links
- [http://www.badw.de/mitglieder/v_mit/index.html#n List of deceased fellows of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220045144/http://www.badw.de/mitglieder/v_mit/index.html#n |date=2014-12-20 }} {{in lang|de}}
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