1. Oskar Bolza was a German mathematician, and student of Felix Klein.
10 Facts About Oskar Bolza
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Oskar Bolza was born in Bad Bergzabern, Palatinate, then a district of Bavaria, known for his research in the calculus of variations, particularly influenced by Karl Weierstrass' 1879 lectures on the subject.
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In 1892 Bolza joined the University of Chicago and worked there up to 1910 when, after becoming unhappy in the United States as a consequence of the death of his friend Heinrich Maschke in 1908, he and his wife returned to Freiburg in Germany.
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Oskar Bolza became interested in religious psychology, languages, and Indian religions.
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In 1889 Oskar Bolza worked at Johns Hopkins University, where Simon Newcomb gave him a temporary short-term appointment "reader in mathematics", then he obtained a position as an associate professor at Clark University.
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In 1892 Oskar Bolza joined the University of Chicago and worked there up to 1910, when he decided to return to Freiburg in Germany: he was appointed there as honorary professor, while the University Chicago awarded him the title of "non-resident professor of mathematics" which he retained for the rest of his life.
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Oskar Bolza published The elliptic s-functions considered as a special case of the hyperelliptic s-functions in 1900 which related to work he had been studying for his doctorate under Klein.
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Immediately after his return to Germany Oskar Bolza continued teaching and research, in particular on function theory, integral equations and the calculus of variations.
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Oskar Bolza returned to Chicago for part of 1913 giving lecturers during the summer on function theory and integral equations.
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In 1908 Oskar Bolza moved into Freiburg and managed to become a professor at the University of Freiburg and lectured there for years.