Rudolf Inzinger (5 April 1907 – 26 August 1980) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n mathematician who made contributions to

differential geometry Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...

, the theory of

convex bodies In mathematics, a convex body in n-dimensional Euclidean space \R^n is a compact convex set with non-empty interior. A convex body K is called symmetric if it is centrally symmetric with respect to the origin; that is to say, a point x lies in ...

, and inverse problems for

sound wave In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...

Biography

Born in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, he was a student at the '' Technische Hochschule'' in the same city. In 1933 he defended his PhD ''Die Liesche Abbildung'' and in 1936 he received his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

. After the

Anschluss The (, or , ), also known as the (, en, Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938. The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...

he had to leave. After his return from war captivity he started again working at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna in 1945 where he was appointed associated professor in 1946 and promoted to full professor one year later. In 1946 he reestablished the Austrian Mathematical Society whose president he was until 1948. In 1968/69 he served as president of the Technische Hochschule in Vienna.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Inzinger, Rudolf 1907 births 1980 deaths Mathematicians from Vienna 20th-century Austrian mathematicians