12 Facts About Ludwig Bieberbach

Ludwig Bieberbach's dissertation was titled On the theory of automorphic functions.

Ludwig Bieberbach began working as a Privatdozent at Konigsberg in 1910 and as Professor ordinarius at the University of Basel in 1913.

Ludwig Bieberbach worked on complex analysis and its applications to other areas in mathematics.

Ludwig Bieberbach is known for his work on dynamics in several complex variables, where he obtained results similar to Fatou's.

In 1916 he formulated the Ludwig Bieberbach conjecture, stating a necessary condition for a holomorphic function to map the open unit disc injectively into the complex plane in terms of the function's Taylor series.

In 1928 Ludwig Bieberbach wrote a book with Issai Schur titled Uber die Minkowskische Reduktiontheorie der positiven quadratischen Formen.

Ludwig Bieberbach was a speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held at Zurich in 1932.

Ludwig Bieberbach joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1937.

Ludwig Bieberbach was enthusiastically involved in the efforts to dismiss his Jewish colleagues, including Edmund Landau and his former coauthor Issai Schur, from their posts.

Ludwig Bieberbach facilitated the Gestapo arrests of some close colleagues, such as Juliusz Schauder.

Ludwig Bieberbach was heavily influenced by Theodore Vahlen, another German mathematician and anti-Semite, who along with Ludwig Bieberbach founded the "Deutsche Mathematik" movement and journal of the same name.

In 1945, Ludwig Bieberbach was dismissed from all his academic positions because of his support of Nazism, but in 1949 was invited to lecture at the University of Basel by Ostrowski, who considered Ludwig Bieberbach's political views irrelevant to his contributions to mathematics.