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arouses intolerable displeasure" in Germans, and was representative of an abstract style of reasoning and "pronounced shrewdness" characteristic of "Jewish mathematics". Bieberbach's and Vahlen's idea of German mathematics was part of a wider trend in the scientific community in Nazi Germany towards
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and its applications to other areas in mathematics. He is known for his work on dynamics in several complex variables, where he obtained results similar to
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In 1945, Bieberbach was dismissed from all his academic positions because of his support of Nazism, but in 1949 was invited to lecture at the
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conditions under which the group must have a translational subgroup whose vectors span the Euclidean space
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Mehrtens, Herbert (1987), "Ludwig Bieberbach and "Deutsche Mathematik"", in Phillips, Esther R. (ed.),
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in 1937. He was enthusiastically involved in the efforts to dismiss his Jewish colleagues, including
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Segal, Sanford L. (2003), "Chapter seven: Ludwig Bieberbach and Deutsche Mathematik",
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giving the sciences racial character; there were also pseudoscientific movements for "
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Die völkische Verwurzelung der Wissenschaft: Typen mathematischen Schaffens
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Bieberbach wrote a habilitation thesis in 1911 about
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In 1928 Bieberbach wrote a book with 765: 385:, stating a necessary condition for a 328:On the theory of automorphic functions 730: 706:Studies in the history of mathematics 285: 788:People from the Grand Duchy of Hesse 18: 365:of Euclidean motions – identifying 279:Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach 13: 798:20th-century German mathematicians 661: 336:Theorie der automorphen Funktionen 38:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 844: 783:People from Groß-Gerau (district) 645: 435:Bieberbach was a speaker at the 91: 23: 381:'s. In 1916 he formulated the 808:University of Göttingen alumni 734:Mathematicians under the Nazis 618: 571: 543: 1: 582:Mathematics Genealogy Project 536: 803:Heidelberg University alumni 605:Forschungen und Fortschritte 301: 7: 668:Bieberbach, Ludwig (1940). 514: 442: 393:in terms of the function's 10: 849: 739:Princeton University Press 350:in 1913. He taught at the 625:Gautschi, Walter (2010), 526:Periodic graph (geometry) 338:). He began working as a 272: 268:Johann Friedrich Schultze 244: 232: 218: 208: 201: 179: 165: 157: 131: 102: 90: 83: 566:University of St Andrews 459:and his former coauthor 439:held at Zurich in 1932. 174:University of Heidelberg 677:Cornwell, John (2003), 352:University of Frankfurt 227:University of Frankfurt 192:Bieberbach's inequality 184:Fatou–Bieberbach domain 170:University of Göttingen 53:more precise citations. 485:Cauchy–Goursat theorem 447:Bieberbach joined the 371:Hilbert's 18th problem 335: 602:of April 8, 1934 and 403:Bieberbach conjecture 383:Bieberbach conjecture 253:Maximilian Herzberger 196:Bieberbach's theorems 188:Bieberbach conjecture 741:, pp. 334–418, 552:Robertson, Edmund F. 531:Topological rigidity 405:is sometimes called 387:holomorphic function 369:– that helped solve 358:from 1921–45. 356:University of Berlin 287:[ˈbiːbɐˌbaχ] 223:University of Berlin 121:Grand Duchy of Hesse 16:German mathematician 556:"Ludwig Bieberbach" 550:O'Connor, John J.; 505:University of Basel 477:Deutsche Mathematik 409:). 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Goddelau
Grand Duchy of Hesse
German Empire
Oberaudorf
Upper Bavaria
West Germany
University of Göttingen
University of Heidelberg
Fatou–Bieberbach domain
Bieberbach conjecture
Bieberbach's inequality
Bieberbach's theorems
Mathematics
University of Berlin
University of Frankfurt
Doctoral advisor
Felix Klein
Werner Fenchel
Maximilian Herzberger
Heinz Hopf
Kurt Schröder
Wilhelm Süss
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mathematician

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