Helmut Grunsky Explained

Helmut Grunsky
Birth Date:11 July 1904
Birth Place:Aalen, Württemberg
Death Place:Würzburg, Bavaria
Nationality:German
Fields:Mathematics
Alma Mater:University of Berlin
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Doctoral Advisors:Ludwig Bieberbach
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Known For:Grunsky's theorem
Grunsky inequalities

Helmut Grunsky (11 July 1904 – 5 June 1986) was a German mathematician who worked in complex analysis and geometric function theory. He introduced Grunsky's theorem and the Grunsky inequalities.

In 1936, he was appointed editor of Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik. In 1939 he was forced to leave this position after Ludwig Bieberbach accused him of employing Jewish referees in a notorious letter. He joined the Nazi Party on 1 April 1940, though he seems to have had little sympathy with its philosophy.[1] He published in the journal Deutsche Mathematik. From 1949 he was Privatdozent at the University of Tübingen; later, he was professor at the University of Mainz and at the University of Würzburg.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard . Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact . 25. 2009. 9780691140414. 26 March 2022.