Koebe

Paul Koebe

Born: 15 Feb 1882 in Luckenwalde, Germany
Died: 6 Aug 1945 in Leipzig, Germany

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Paul Koebe studied at Göttingen then he was appointed to Leipzig in 1910 and Jena in 1914, returning to Leipzig in 1926.

His work was on complex functions, his most important results on the uniformisation of Riemann surfaces. Shortly after 1900 Koebe established the general principle of uniformization which had been originally conceived by Klein and Poincaré.

Koebe's style was pompous and chaotic and Koebe anecdotes were famous in Germany between the two wars.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. O Volk, Paul Koebe, Neue deutsche Biographie XII (1980). 
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