Felix Bernstein (mathematician)
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| Born | 24 February 1878 |
| Died | 3 December 1956 (aged 78) |
| Alma mater | Göttingen University |
| Known for | Schröder-Bernstein theorem |
| Children | Marianne Bernstein-Wiener[1]: p.7r |
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| Doctoral advisor | David Hilbert |
| Doctoral students | Paul Beck, Martin Gauger, Ruth Heidemann, Hermann Hitzler, Siegfried Koller, Alfred Müller, Hans Münzner, Werner Rups, Walter Schwarzburg, Hans Thunsdorff |
Felix Bernstein (24 February 1878, Halle, Germany – 3 December 1956, Zurich, Switzerland), son of Julius Bernstein, was a German Jewish mathematician known for developing a theorem of the equivalence of sets in 1897, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis.
While still in gymnasium in Halle, Bernstein heard Georg Cantor's university seminar.[1]: p.5r From 1896 to 1900, Bernstein studied in Munich, Halle, Berlin and Göttingen.[2]: p.166 In the early Weimar Republic, Bernstein temporarily was Göttingen vice-chairman of the German Democratic Party.[3]: p.7 [4]: p.118 [5] In 1933,[note 1] after Hitler's rise to power, Bernstein was deprived from his chair, per §6 of the Nazi Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, often used against politically unpopular persons. He received the message of his dismissal during a research/lecturing journey (started on Dec. 1st, 1932) to the USA, and he stayed there.[5][2]: p.166 [3]: p.7-8 In 1948, Bernstein retired from teaching in the USA, and returned to Europe.[6] He mainly lived in Rome and Freiburg, occasionally visiting Göttingen,[2]: p.166 where he became professor emeritus.[6] He died of cancer[citation needed] in Zurich on 3 December 1956.[6][1]: p.6r
Publications
- Felix Bernstein (1903). Über den Klassenkörper eines algebraischen Zahlkörpers (Habilitation thesis). Univ. Göttingen.
- Felix Bernstein (1905). "Untersuchungen aus der Mengenlehre". Mathematische Annalen. 61. Berlin: Springer: 117–155. doi:10.1007/bf01457734. (Dissertation, 1901); reprint Jan 2010, ISBN 1141370263
- Felix Bernstein (1905). "Über die isoperimetrische Eigenschaft des Kreises auf der Kugeloberfläche und in der Ebene" (PDF). Mathematische Annalen. 60: 117–136.
- Felix Bernstein (1905). "Über die Reihe der transfiniten Ordnungszahlen" (PDF). Mathematische Annalen. 60: 187–193.
- Felix Bernstein (1905). "Die Theorie der reellen Zahlen" (PDF). Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 14: 447–449.
- Felix Bernstein (1905). "Zum Kontinuumproblem" (PDF). Mathematische Annalen. 60: 463–464.
- Felix Bernstein (1907). "Über das Gaußsche Fehlergesetz" (PDF). Mathematische Annalen. 64: 417–448.
- Felix Bernstein (1907). "Zur Theorie der trigonometrischen Reihe" (PDF). Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 132: 270–278.
- Felix Bernstein (1919). "Die Mengenlehre Georg Cantors und der Finitismus" (PDF). Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 28: 63–78.
- Felix Bernstein (1919). "Die Übereinstimmung derjenigen beiden Summationsverfahren einer divergenten Reihe, welche von T.E. Stieltjes und E. Borel herrühren" (PDF). Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 28: 50–63. — Corrections in Vol.29 (1920), p. 94
- Felix Bernstein (1923). "Zur Statistik der sekundären Geschlechtsmerkmale beim Menschen" (PDF). Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. 1923: 89–95.
Further reading
Nathan, Henry (1970–1980). "Bernstein, Felix". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
Notes
- ^ In 1934, according to O'Connor, Robertson (MacTutor).
References
- ^ a b c Attention: This template ({{cite pmid}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by PMID 8417988, please use {{cite journal}} with
|pmid=8417988instead. - ^ a b c Max Pinl (1970). "Kollegen in einer dunklen Zeit (2)" (PDF). Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 72: 165–189.
- ^ a b Norbert Schappacher (1987). "Das Mathematische Institut der Universität Göttingen 1929—1950" (PDF). In Becker, Dahms, Wegeler (ed.). Die Universität Göttingen unter dem Nationalsozialismus. München: K.G.Saur. pp. 345–373.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) — Schappacher gives a lot of details from the Göttingen University archive. - ^ Barbara Marshall (1972). The Political Development of German University Towns in the Weimar Republic: Göttingen and Münster 1918—1930 (Ph.D. thesis). Univ. of London.
{{cite thesis}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|month=(help) - ^ a b Steffi Laemmle, Willy Tiabou, Christoph Bichlmeier (May 2003). http://www5.in.tum.de/lehre/seminare/math_nszeit/SS03/vortraege/verfolgt. Seminar für überfachliche Grundlagen: Mathematiker in der NS-Zeit contribution=Verfolgte Mathematiker (Persecuted Mathematicians) (Term Paper). TU Munich.
{{cite report}}:|contribution-url=missing title (help); Missing pipe in:|title=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Felix Bernstein (mathematician)", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
External links
- Biography at the Felix-Bernstein-Institute for Mathematical Statistics in the Biosciences at the Göttingen University
- Felix Bernstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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