Rudolf Rothe

Rudolf Ernst Rothe (15 October 1873, Berlin – 26 October 1942, Berlin)[1] was a German applied mathematician.[2]

Rudolf Ernst Rothe

Biography

After graduating from the Sophien-Gymnasium in Berlin, Rothe studied from 1892 under Hermann Amandus Schwarz, Johannes Knoblauch, Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius[3] at the Humboldt University of Berlin. There in 1897 he received his Promotion (Ph.D.) with dissertation Untersuchungen über die Theorie der isothermal Flächen (Investigations on the theory of isothermal surfaces) supervised by Schwarz. In 1905 Rothe completed his habilitation at the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg (Technical University of Berlin). He was a professor from 1908 to 1914 at the Clausthal University of Technology (TU Claustral) and from 1914 to 1915 at the Technische Hochschule Hanover (University of Hanover), where he founded the Institute for Applied Mathematics. From 1915 he was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin, where he was rector in 1921. After retiring in 1939, he was an honorary senator of the Technical University of Berlin.

His research deals with differential geometry and function theory. During WW I, he did research on ballistics and on determining the trajectories for the projectiles fired from the "Paris gun" (which in 1918 was fired at Paris from 120 kilometers away).[4][5]

In 1926 he was elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[6]

In 1930 he was president of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung. From 1916 to 1918 and from 1939 to 1941 he was chair of the Berlin Mathematical Society, of which he was a founding member.

After the death of Johannes Knoblauch, Rothe completed the editing and publishing of the collected works of Karl Weierstrass. Rothe was co-editor with Felix Auerbach of the Taschenbuch für Mathematiker und Physiker (Pocket-sized book for mathematicians and physicists), published by B. G. Teubner Verlag in 1911[7] and 1913[8][9] (and first published in 1909 by Auerbach alone).

Selected publications

References

  1. biographical data, session reports of the Berliner Mathematischen Gesellschaft (Berlin Mathematical Society), 2001
  2. Emmer, Michele, ed. (2 December 2003). "Mathematics and fascism. The case of Berlin by Jochen Brüning". Mathematics and Culture I. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-540-01770-7; translated from the original Italian of Matematica e culture 2000 by Emanuela Moreale{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. He mentions these mathematicians as particularly formative in the appendix to his dissertation.
  4. Hermann, Armin; Sang, Hans Peter, eds. (1992). Technik und Staat. VDI Verlag. p. 368.
  5. Grüß, Gerhard (1942). "Rudolf Rothe zum Gedächtnis". Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik. 22 (5): 302. Bibcode:1942ZaMM...22..302G. doi:10.1002/zamm.19420220522.
  6. "Rudolf Rothe". Nationale Akademie der Wissenschafter Leopoldnia.
  7. Ponzer, Ernest W. (1912). "Book Review: Taschenbuch für Mathematiker und Physiker". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 19 (1): 21–23. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1912-02286-3. ISSN 0002-9904.
  8. Felix Auerbach; Rudolf Rothe, eds. (1913). Taschenbuch für Mathematiker und Physiker. B. G. Teubner.
  9. Miller, G. A. (1914). "Book Review: Taschenbuch für Mathematiker und Physiker". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 20 (4): 201–203. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1914-02465-6. ISSN 0002-9904.
  10. Gronwall, T. H. (1915). "Book Review: Darstellende Geometrie des Geländes". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 21 (7): 361. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1915-02674-1. ISSN 0002-9904.
  11. Hildebrandt, T. H. (1930). "Book Review: Höhere Mathematik für Mathematiker, Physiker, und Ingenieure". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 36 (1): 28–29. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1930-04864-8. ISSN 0002-9904.
  12. Fuchs, W. H. J. (1954). "Book Review: Höhere Mathematik für Mathematiker, Physiker, Ingenieure. Part VI. Integration und Reihenentwicklung im Komplexen. Gewöhnliche und partielle Differentialgleichungen". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 60 (5): 494–495. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1954-09844-0. ISSN 0002-9904.
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