Mathematician:Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke
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Mathematician
Austrian differential and integral geometer.
Published one of the first books devoted to convex sets: Kreis und Kugel.
Made a thorough review of the subject with citations within the text to attribute credit in a classical area of mathematics.
Nationality
Austrian
History
- Born: 13 September 1885 in Graz, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
- Died: 17 March 1962 in Hamburg, Germany
Theorems and Definitions
- Blaschke Product
- Blaschke Selection Theorem
- Blaschke-Lebesgue Theorem (with Henri Léon Lebesgue) (also known as Blaschke's Theorem)
- Blaschke-Santaló Inequality (with Luís Antoni Santaló Sors)
- Blaschke Condition
- Blaschke Conjecture
Results named for Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke can be found here.
Publications
- 1916: Kreis und Kugel ("Circle and Sphere")
- 1921 -- 1929: Vorlesungen über Differentialgeometrie (3 vols.):
- Vol. 1: Elementare Differentialgeometrie
- Vol. 2: Affine Differentialgeometrie
- Vol. 3: Differentialgeometrie der Kreise und Kugeln
- 1938: Geometrie der Gewebe (with G. Bol)
- 1938: Ebene Kinematik
- 1942: Nicht-Euklidische Geometrie und Mechanik I, II, III
- 1948: Zur Bewegungsgeometrie auf der Kugel
- 1950: Einführung in die Differentialgeometrie
- 1951: Mathematik und Leben
- 1953: Griechische und anschauliche Geometrie
- 1954: Projektive Geometrie
- 1954: Analytische Geometrie
- 1955: Einführung in die Geometrie der Waben
- 1955: Vorlesungen über Integralgeometrie
- 1960: Kinematik und Quaternionen
Also known as
Some sources give his surname (probably erroneously) as Blashke.
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians