Emil Hilb

Emil Hilb 1908

Emil Hilb (born 26 April 1882 in Stuttgart;[1] died 6 August 1929[2] in Würzburg) was a German-Jewish[3] mathematician who worked in the fields of special functions, differential equations, and difference equations. He was one of the authors of the Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften (Encyclopedia of mathematical sciences), contributing on the topics of trigonometric series and differential equations. He wrote a book on Lamé functions.[4]

Hilb obtained his PhD in 1903 under the supervision of Ferdinand von Lindemann.[5] He worked as a high school mathematics teacher in Augsburg until 1906, when Max Noether hired him as an assistant; in 1908 he found a position as a lecturer at the University of Erlangen. He won a position as a professor at the University of Würzburg in 1909, in preference over Ernst Zermelo.[6] His students at Würzburg included Richard Bär, who later became a distinguished experimental physicist,[7] Otto Haupt, and Axel Schur.[4][5]

  1. ^ Hilb, E. (1903), "Lebenslauf", Beiträge zur theorie der lame'schen Funktionen, p. 60.
  2. ^ "Notes", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 35 (6): 885–888, 1929, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1929-04829-8.
  3. ^ Flade, Roland (1985), Juden in Würzburg, 1918–1933, Mainfränkische Studien, vol. 34 (2nd ed.), p. 47.
  4. ^ a b http://www.didaktik.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/history/vollrath/papers/073.pdf Hans-Joachim Vollrath: Emil Hilb (1882–1929), In: P. Baumgart (Hrsg.), Lebensbilder bedeutender Würzburger Professoren, Neustadt/Aisch (Degener), 1995, pages 320–338
  5. ^ a b Emil Hilb at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Zermelo, Ernst (2009), Collected Works: Volume I, Springer-Verlag, p. 19, ISBN 978-3-540-79383-0.
  7. ^ Mehra, Jagdish; Rechenberg, Helmut (2001), Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics: Schrödinger in Vienna and Zurich 1887–1925, Part 1, The historical development of quantum theory, Springer-Verlag, p. 285, ISBN 978-0-387-95179-9.