Wilhelm Wirtinger

Wilhelm Wirtinger
Wilhelm Wirtinger
Born(1865-07-19)19 July 1865
Died16 January 1945(1945-01-16) (aged 79)
Ybbs an der Donau, Greater German Reich
NationalityAustrian
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Known forComplex analysis of one and several variables
Wirtinger derivatives
Wirtinger presentation
Wirtinger's formula
Wirtinger's inequality for functions
Wirtinger's representation and projection theorem
AwardsSylvester Medal (1907)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Innsbruck
University of Vienna
Doctoral advisorEmil Weyr
Gustav Ritter von Escherich
Doctoral studentsWilhelm Blaschke
Hilda Geiringer
Kurt Gödel
Wilhelm Gross
Eduard Helly
Leopold Vietoris
Roland Weitzenböck

Wilhelm Wirtinger (19 July 1865 – 16 January 1945) was an Austrian mathematician, working in complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups, and knot theory.