Re: [HM] Otto Toeplitz (was: genetic method)

Prof. Lueneburg (luene@mathematik.uni-kl.de)
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 12:29:59 +0200 (MESZ)

So far I found the following: Toeplitz got his PhD in Breslau. His thesis:

Ueber Systeme von Formen, deren Funktionaldeterminante identisch verschwindet.
Breslau 1905

His teachers were Rosano and Sturm. My source does not give initials. Having
obtained his PhD, he went to Goettingen to continue his studies. There he met
Hilbert.

The source:

Heinrich Behnke und Gottfried Koethe, Otto Toeplitz zum Ged"achtnis. Jahresber.
DMV 66, 1-16, 1963

>
> I checked Hilbert's genealogy (note that there was another mathematician
> Hilbert: Karl Hilbert), but Otto Toeplitz is not listed among his Ph.D.
> students. But this doesn't necessarily mean that he was not.
> (The genealogy database doesn't contain Otto Toeplitz)
>
> So my question is: Who was Toeplitz's advisor, and which was his Thesis?
>
> Antreas