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Title	Karl Löwner and His Student Lipman Bers – Pre-war Prague Mathematicians ([EBook] /) / Martina Bečvářová, Ivan Netuka
Author	Bečvářová, Martina
Added Personal Name	Netuka, Ivan
Publication	Zuerich, Switzerland : : European Mathematical Society Publishing House, , 2015
Physical Details	1 online resource (310 pages)
Series	Heritage of European Mathematics (HEM) 2523-5214
ISBN	9783037196441
Summary Note	This monograph is devoted to two distinguished mathematicians, Karel Löwner (1893–1968) and Lipman Bers (1914–1993), whose lives are dramatically interlinked with key historical events of the 20th century. K. Löwner, Professor of Mathematics at the German University in Prague (Czechoslovakia), was dismissed from his position because he was a Jew, and emigrated to the USA in 1939 (where he changed his name to Charles Loewner). Earlier, he had published several outstanding papers in complex analysis and a masterpiece on matrix functions. In particular, his ground-breaking parametric method in geometric function theory from 1923, which led to Löwner’s celebrated differential equation, brought him world-wide fame and turned out to be a cornerstone in de Branges’ proof of the Bieberbach conjecture. Unexpectedly, Löwner’s differential equation has gained recent prominence with the introduction of a conformally invariant stochastic process called stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE) by O. Schramm in 2000. SLE features in two Fields Medal citations from 2006 and 2010. L. Bers was the final Prague Ph.D. student of K. Löwner. His dissertation on potential theory (1938), completed shortly before his emigration and long thought to be irretrievably lost, was found in 2006. It is here made accessible for the first time, with an extensive commentary, to the mathematical community. This monograph presents an in-depth account of the lives of both mathematicians, with special emphasis on the pre-war period. Löwner’s teaching activities and professional achievements are presented in the context of the prevailing complex political situation and against the background of the wider development of mathematics in Europe. Each of his publications is accompanied by an extensive commentary, tracing the origin and motivation of the problem studied, and describing the state-of-art at the time of the corresponding mathematical field. Special attention is paid to the impact of the results obta...:
Mode of acces to digital resource	Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher). Available as searchable text in PDF format.
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Internet Site	https://doi.org/10.4171/144
See Also	https://www.ems-ph.org/img/books/becvarova_mini.jpg
Links to Related Works	Subject References: History and biography . History of mathematics . Number Theory . Authors: author . Bečvářová, Martina . Netuka, Ivan . Series: Heritage of European Mathematics (HEM) .

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