Hans Hamburger
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Hans Ludwig Hamburger (5 August 1889, Berlin – 14 August 1956 Cologne) was a German mathematician. He was a professor at universities in Berlin, Cologne and Ankara.
He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1914 under the supervision of Alfred Pringsheim and after war service obtained his Habilitation for a thesis on Extensions of the Stieltjes moment problem. He was appointed Privatdozent at the University of Berlin in 1921 and professor at the University of Cologne in 1926. He left Germany in 1939 to avoid persecution and from 1941 to 1946 he was lecturer at the University of Southampton, then moved to the University of Ankara in 1947, returning to Cologne in 1953.
The Hamburger moment problem is named after him.
[edit] References
- Margaret E. Grimshaw, Hans Ludwig Hamburger, Journal of the London Mathematical Society 33 (1958), 377 – 383.
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