Toeplitz

Otto Toeplitz

Born: 1 Aug 1881 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland)
Died: 11 Oct 1940 in Jerusalem (under the British Mandate at the time)

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Toeplitz was professor in Bonn. However because of his Jewish background he was dismissed from his chair by the Nazis in 1933. He went to Jerusalem in 1938.

Toeplitz worked on infinite linear and quadratic forms. In the 1930's he developed a general theory of infinite dimensional spaces and criticised Banach's work as being too abstract.

He was also very interested in the history of mathematics. For example he wrote an excellent book on the history of the calculus The Calculus: A Genetic Approach (1963). It was originally published in German in 1949.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. H Behnke and G Köthe, Otto Toeplitz zum Gednächtnis, Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker vereinigung 66 (1963), 1-16. 
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