Alfred Tauber

Alfred Tauber (November 5, 1866 – July 26, 1942) was an Austrian mathematician who was born in Bratislava, then in Kingdom of Hungary and called Pozsony, and was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Life

He began studying mathematics at Vienna University in 1884, obtained his Ph.D. in 1889 (or 1888),^[1] and his habilitation in 1891. Starting in 1892, he was chief mathematician of the Phönix insurance company, until he became an a.o. professor at Vienna University in 1908; already since 1901 he had been honorary professor at TH Vienna and director of its insurance mathematics professorship. In 1933 he was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria, and retired, but still gave lectures until in 1938 he was forced to renounce. On 28–29 June 1942 he was deported with transport IV/2, č. 621 to Theresienstadt, where he was murdered on 26 July 1942.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Works

In 1897 he proved a corrected converse of Abel's theorem. G.H. Hardy and J.E. Littlewood coined the term Tauberian to describe converse theorems like that proved by Tauber. Pinl (1974) lists 35 publications in a bibliography appended to his obituary.^[4]

Publications

• Tauber, Alfred (1891). "Über den Zusammenhang des reellen und imaginären Theiles einer Potenzreihe (On the relation between real and imaginary part of a power series)". Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik 2: 79–118. doi:10.1007/bf01691828. 
• Tauber, Alfred (1895). "Ueber die Werte einer analytischen Function längs einer Kreislinie (On the values of an analytic function along a circle perimeter)". Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 4: 115. 
• Tauber, Alfred (1897). "Ein Satz aus der Theorie der unendlichen Reihen (A theorem about infinite series)". Monatsh. Math. U. Phys. 8: 273–277. doi:10.1007/BF01696278. 
• Tauber, Alfred (1920). "Über konvergente und asymptotische Darstellung des Integrallogarithmus (On convergent and asymptotic representation of the logarithmic integral function)". Mathematische Zeitschrift 8: 62–62. doi:10.1007/bf01212858. 
• Tauber, Alfred (1922). "Über die Umwandlung von Potenzreihen in Kettenbrüche (On the conversion of power series into continued fractions)". Mathematische Zeitschrift 15: 66–80. doi:10.1007/bf01494383. 

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alfred Tauber", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
• Alfred Tauber at encyclopedia.com
• Alfred Tauber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

References