Julius_Wolff_(mathematician)

Julius Wolff (mathematician)

Julius Wolff (mathematician)

Dutch mathematician


Julius Wolff (18 April 1882 8 February 1945)[1] was a Dutch-Jewish mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma.[3][4][5] With his family he was arrested in Utrecht by the Nazi occupation forces of the Netherlands on 8 March 1943 and transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 13 September 1944, where he died of epidemic typhus on 8 February 1945, shortly before the camp was liberated.[5][6]

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Wolff studied mathematics and physics at the University of Amsterdam, where he earned his doctorate in 1908 under Korteweg with thesis Dynamen, beschouwd als duale vectoren.[7] From 1907 to 1917 he taught at secondary and grammar schools in Meppel, Middelburg, and Amsterdam. In 1917 Wolff was appointed Professor of differential calculus, theory of functions and higher algebra at the University of Groningen and in 1922 at the University of Utrecht. He was also a statistical advisor for the life insurance company (or co-operative distributive society) "Eigen Hulp," (a predecessor of AEGON) with offices at The Hague.[8]

Publications

  • Wolff, J. (1926), "Sur l'itération des fonctions holomorphes dans une région, et dont les valeurs appartiennent à cette région", C. R. Acad. Sci., 182, Paris: 42–43
  • Wolff, J. (1926), "Sur une généralisation d'un théorème de Schwarz", C. R. Acad. Sci., 182, Paris: 918–920
  • Wolff, J. (1931). Fourier'sche Reihen, mit Aufgaben. Groningen: P. Noordhoff.[9]
  • van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, T.; Wolff, J. (1943–1944). "Über die Grenzen der einfachzusammenhängenden Gebiete". Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 16: 321–323. doi:10.1007/BF02568584. S2CID 124837715.

References

  1. quoted from Gerard Alberts, Amsterdam, blog post of Feb. 3, 2003 at mathforum.org
  2. J. A. Barrau (1947). "In Memoriam Prof. Dr. J. Wolff". Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde. 2 (22): 113–114. with portrait[2]
  3. J. G. van der Corput (1948). "Wiskunde". In Karel Frederik Proost and Jan Romein (ed.). Geestelijk Nederland 1920-1940 (PDF). Vol. II. Amsterdam: Kosmos. pp. 255—291 (263—299 in the pdf file). This article has a separate one-page-section on the importance of J. Wolff (p.279-280 in the pdf file), and a portrait (p.275).[2]
  4. "(J.A. van Maanen:) Julius Wolff (1882-1945) (Biography in Dutch)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

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