František Wolf
František Wolf (1904–1989) was a Czech mathematician known for his contributions to trigonometry and mathematical analysis, specifically the study of the perturbation of linear operators.
František Wolf | |
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 František Wolf | |
| Born | 1904 |
| Died | 1989 |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Alma mater | Masaryk University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Otakar Borůvka |
| Doctoral students | |
Wolf was born 1904 in Prostějov, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and now part of the Czech Republic, the elder of two children of a furniture maker. He studied physics at Charles University in Prague, and then mathematics at Masaryk University in Brno under the supervision of Otakar Borůvka; he was awarded a doctorate in 1928 (degree Rerum Naturum Doctor). He then taught mathematics at the high school level until 1937, when he obtained a faculty position at Charles University. When the German army invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, Wolf obtained an invitation to visit the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden; he remained in Sweden as part of the underground resistance to the Germans until 1941 before emigrating to the United States. He taught at Macalester College for a year, and then joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1942. At Berkeley, he was one of the co-founders of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics in 1951. He retired in 1972, but then moved to Guatemala where he helped to set up a graduate program in mathematics at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. He died on August 12, 1989, in Berkeley.[1][2][3]
Publications
- Wolf, František (1952), "Analytic perturbation of operators in Banach spaces", Mathematische Annalen, 124 (1): 317–333, doi:10.1007/bf01343573, S2CID 115814611
References
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Frantisek Wolf", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews.
- Frantisek Wolf at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Bade, William G.; Protter, Murray H.; Taylor, Angus E. (1991), "František Wolf, Mathematics: Berkeley", University of California: In Memoriam, 1991, Academic Senate, University of California.