Otto Haupt (born 5 March 1887 in Würzburg; died 10 November 1988 in Bad Soden) was a German mathematician.
Biography
editHaupt obtained his PhD in 1911 under the supervision of Georg Rost and Emil Hilb at the University of Würzburg,[1] and became a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He retired from teaching in 1953, but continued his mathematical research for many subsequent years.[2]
Since 1918 he was married to Edith Hughes. Despite her Jewish ancestry, she survived the Nazi period unharmed in Erlangen, and lived to 1981.[2]
Research and publications
editHaupt specialized in geometry and real analysis; many of his research publications related to the four-vertex theorem on local minima and maxima of curvature. He also wrote textbooks on algebra and calculus.[2]
Awards and honors
editIn 1987, his centenary year, a birthday conference was given in his honor at the University of Erlangen.[2][3]
He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Bonn, the University of Nantes and the University of Würzburg.[2][3][4]
References
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- ^ Otto Haupt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c d e Jacobs, Konrad (1987), "Otto Haupt: Centenarian mathematician", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 9 (4): 50–51, doi:10.1007/BF03023732, S2CID 123140526.
- ^ a b Bauer, Heinz (1987), "Otto Haupt — Zum 100. Geburtstag", Aequationes Mathematicae (in German), 32 (1): 1–5, doi:10.1007/BF02311293, S2CID 123128849.
- ^ Jahrbuch der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1988, p. 236: "Haupt war Ehrendoktor der Universitäten Bonn, Würzburg und Nantes".