Georg Aumann
| Georg Aumann | |
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Mathematician George Aumann
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| Born |
November 11, 1906 Munich |
| Died | August 4, 1980 (aged 73) Munich |
| Citizenship | German |
| Fields |
Mathematics Topology |
| Institutions |
University of Munich Goethe University Frankfurt Bavarian Academy of Sciences University of Erlangen University of Würzburg Technical University of Munich |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor |
Constantin Carathéodory Heinrich Tietze |
| Doctoral students |
Friedrich L. Bauer Dietrich Bierlein Hermann Dinges Dietbert Ehresmann Kurt Goetschi Wolfgang Kaunzner Hans Kerner Hans Sonner Thomas Ströhlein Peter Vachenauer Rudolf Zirngibl |
| Known for | General topology |
Georg Aumann (November 11, 1906, Munich, Germany – August 4, 1980), was a German mathematician. He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and lead by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical mathematical research department in the late 1930's, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr. OKW/Chi). He also worked as a cryptanalyst, on the initial breaking of the most difficult cyphers. He was also involved in the development of cryptanalytic theory.
Born in Munich, George Aumann initially considered a career as a civil servant. From 1925, Aumann studied mathematics and physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, among others with Professor Constantin Carathéodory and Professor Heinrich Tietze. He was promoted in 1931 to Dr.Phil. with a thesis titled: contributions to the theory of decomposition spaces (German:Beiträge zur Theorie der Zerlegungsräume) In 1933 he habilitated twice, at the Technical University of Munich , and at the University of Munich (with different degrees of postdoctoral dissertation). In 1934–35 he was appointed a Rockefeller scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton N.J. In 1936 he became an extraordinary professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. At the beginning of the war, he was conscripted for military service Appeals to a full professorship failed several times because he was regarded as politically unreliable among the Nazis Ministry of Education. In all these years his wife was an indispensable, prudent and energetic support to him. In 1949 he became full professor at the University of Würzburg and in 1950 at the University of Munich. In 1960 he moved to a professorship at the Technical University of Munich. After the war, he received an apology.
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