Oskar Bolza

Oskar Bolza
Oskar Bolza (1857-1942)
Born(1857-05-12)12 May 1857
Died5 July 1942(1942-07-05) (aged 85)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Gottingen
University of Berlin
Known forThe Bolza problem[1]
Bolza surface
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Clark University
ThesisÜber die Reduction hyperelliptischer Integrale erster Ordnung und erster Gattung auf elliptische, insbesondere über die Reduction durch eine Transformation vierten Grades (1886)
Doctoral advisorFelix Klein
Doctoral students
Other notable studentsAnne Bosworth

Oskar Bolza (12 May 1857 – 5 July 1942) was a German mathematician, and student of Felix Klein. He was born in Bad Bergzabern, Palatinate, then a district of Bavaria, known for his research in the calculus of variations, particularly influenced by Karl Weierstrass' 1879 lectures on the subject.[2]

  1. ^ See the related entry (Weisstein) at Mathworld and Giaquinta & Hildebrandt (1996, pp. 136–137).
  2. ^ Simmons, George F. (2007). Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics. MAA. pp. 209–10. ISBN 978-0-88385-561-4.