Mathematician:Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach

Mathematician

German mathematician working mostly in analysis.

Founded the Nazi-influenced journal Deutsche Mathematik.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 4 December 1886 in Goddelau, Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany
• Died: 1 September 1982 in Oberaudorf in Oberbayern, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Bieberbach's Inequality
• Bieberbach Conjecture (now known as de Branges's Theorem for Louis de Branges, who proved it)

• Fatou-Bieberbach Domain (with Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou)

Results named for Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach can be found here.

Publications

• 1910: Zur Theorie der automorphen Funktionen
• 1911, 1912: Über die Bewegungsgruppen der Euklidischen Räume (two parts) (in which Hilbert's 11th problem was addressed)
• 1913: Über die Grundlagen der modernen Mathematik (inaugural address at Basel)
• 1916: Über die Koeffizienten derjenigen Potenzreihen, welche eine schlichte Abbildung des Einheitskreises vermitteln (in which Bieberbach's Conjecture appears)
• 1920: New investigations concerning Functions of a Complex Variable

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive