Philipp Furtwängler

Philipp Furtwängler
Philipp Furtwängler
Born	April 21, 1869; Elze, North German Confederation
Died	May 19, 1940 (aged 71); Vienna, Austria
	Scientific career
Doctoral advisor	Felix Klein
Doctoral students	Wolfgang Gröbner, Nikolaus Hofreiter, Henry Mann, Otto Schreier, Olga Taussky-Todd

Friederich Pius Philipp Furtwängler (April 21, 1869 – May 19, 1940) was a German number theorist.

Biography

Furtwängler wrote an 1896 doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen on cubic forms (Zur Theorie der in Linearfaktoren zerlegbaren ganzzahlingen ternären kubischen Formen), under Felix Klein. Most of his academic life, from 1912 to 1938, was spent at the University of Vienna, where he taught for example Kurt Gödel, who later said that Furtwängler's lectures on number theory were the best mathematical lectures that he ever heard; Gödel had originally intended to become a physicist but turned to mathematics partly as a result of Furtwängler's lectures. Furtwängler was paralysed and, without notes, lectured from a wheelchair while his assistant wrote equations on the blackboard.[1]

Some of Furtwängler's doctoral students were Wolfgang Gröbner, Nikolaus Hofreiter, Henry Mann, Otto Schreier, and Olga Taussky-Todd. Through these and others, he has over 3000 academic descendants.[2]

He is now best known for his contribution to the principal ideal theorem in the form of his Beweis des Hauptidealsatzes für Klassenkörper algebraischer Zahlkörper (1929).

Philipp Furtwängler was a grandson of the organ builder Philipp Furtwängler (1800-1867) and a second cousin of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.[3]

Selected publications

with Helmut Hasse and W. Jehne: Allgemeine Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen. Vol. 8. Teubner, 1953.[4]

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References

Moore, Gregory (Sep–Oct 2005). "The Incomplete Gödel". American Scientist.
Philipp Furtwängler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Furtwängler family tree
Whaples, George (1956). "Review of Allgemeine Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen by Ph. Furtwängler. Reworked by H. Hasse and W. Jehne". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62: 73. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1956-09988-4.

Sources

"Philipp Furtwängler". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 1, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 383.
Nikolaus Hofreiter (1961), "Furtwängler, Friedrich Pius Philipp", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 5, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 740–740

External links

Literature by and about Philipp Furtwängler in the German National Library catalogue
http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/kataloge/literaturnachweise/furtwaen/literatur.pdf (PDF-Datei; 35 kB)

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[1] Moore, Gregory (Sep–Oct 2005). "The Incomplete Gödel". American Scientist.

[2] Philipp Furtwängler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

[3] Furtwängler family tree

[4] Whaples, George (1956). "Review of Allgemeine Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen by Ph. Furtwängler. Reworked by H. Hasse and W. Jehne". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 62: 73. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1956-09988-4.