Gustav Herglotz

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Gustav Herglotz was a German mathematician known for his contributions to potential theory, the calculus of variations, and the theory of seismic waves.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
citizenshipChange Austro-Hungarian subject to German citizen
countryOfCitizenship German Empire NERFINISHED
Germany
dateOfBirth 1881-02-02
dateOfDeath 1953-03-22
doctoralAdvisor David Hilbert NERFINISHED
doctoralThesisTopic potential theory
educatedAt University of Göttingen
University of Vienna
employer University of Göttingen NERFINISHED
University of Leipzig NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup German Bohemian
fieldOfWork calculus of variations
differential equations
mathematics
potential theory
relativity theory
seismology
theory of seismic waves
gender male
knownFor Herglotz representation theorem NERFINISHED
Herglotz wave function NERFINISHED
Herglotz–Noether theorem NERFINISHED
memberOf Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities NERFINISHED
Saxon Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage German
notableIdea application of variational methods to relativity
integral equation approach to seismic wave propagation
notableStudent Wilhelm Magnus NERFINISHED
notableWork Herglotz trick in calculus of variations NERFINISHED
Herglotz–Wiechert method NERFINISHED
contributions to the theory of analytic functions with positive real part
work on integral equations in seismology
occupation university professor
placeOfBirth Wallern, Bohemia NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Göttingen, Germany NERFINISHED
studentOf Felix Klein NERFINISHED
Hermann Minkowski NERFINISHED
workLocation Göttingen NERFINISHED
Leipzig NERFINISHED

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Emil Artin doctoralAdvisor Gustav Herglotz