Werner Weber (mathematician)

Werner Weber
Born(1906-01-03)3 January 1906
Oberstein, German Empire
Died2 February 1975(1975-02-02) (aged 69)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
ThesisIdealtheoretische Deutung der Darstellbarkeit beliebiger natürlicher Zahlen durch quadratische Formen (1930)
Doctoral advisor

Werner Weber (3 January 1906 – 2 February 1975) was a German mathematician.[1] He was one of the Noether boys, the doctoral students of Emmy Noether. Considered scientifically gifted but a modest mathematician, he was also an ardent Nazi, who would later take part in driving Jewish mathematicians out of the University of Göttingen.[2]

He later started work as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and led by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr. OKW/Chi).[3][4]

  1. ^ Werner Weber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Schappacher, Norbert (1998). "The Nazi era: the Berlin way of politicizing mathematics". In Begehr, Heinrich; Koch, Helmut; Kramer, Jürg; Schappacher, Norbert; Thiele, Ernst-Jochen (eds.). Mathematics in Berlin. Birkhäuser, Basel: Springer. p. 127-136. ISBN 978-3-0348-8787-8.
  3. ^ "Army Security Agency: DF-187 The Career of Wilhelm Fenner with Special Regard to his activity in the field of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis (PDF)". Google Drive. 1 December 1949. p. 7. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  4. ^ TICOM reports DF-187 A-G and DF-176, ‘European Axis Signal Intelligence in World War II’ vol 2