Konrad Jörgens (3 December 1926 – 28 April 1974) was a German mathematician.
He made important contributions to
mathematical physics
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, in particular to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to the theory of
partial differential equation
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The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...
s and
integral operators.
Career
He studied at
Karlsruhe
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(1949–51) and
Göttingen
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(1951–54) where he received his doctorate in 1954 under
Franz Rellich, with a thesis on the Monge-Ampere equation. From 1954-1958 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics at Göttingen, with an interim stay at New York University (1956–57). From 1958 he was at the Institute of Applied Mathematics at Heidelberg, where he received his habilitation in July, 1959. In June 1961 he was appointed to the newly created professorship of applied and practical mathematics at the same institute. In 1966 he became professor of applied mathematics at
Heidelberg
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Selected publications
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References
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External links
Konrad Jörgensat the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
1926 births
1974 deaths
Mathematical physicists
20th-century German mathematicians
University of Göttingen alumni
Academic staff of Heidelberg University
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