10 Facts About Otto Toeplitz

Otto Toeplitz was a German mathematician working in functional analysis.

Otto Toeplitz then studied mathematics at the University of Breslau and was awarded a doctorate in algebraic geometry in 1905.

In 1906 Otto Toeplitz arrived at Gottingen University, which was then the world's leading mathematical center, and he remained there for seven years.

Otto Toeplitz joined a group of young people working with Hilbert: Max Born, Richard Courant and Ernst Hellinger, with whom he collaborated for many years afterward.

At that time Otto Toeplitz began to rework the theory of linear functionals and quadratic forms on n-dimensional spaces for infinite dimensional spaces.

Otto Toeplitz wrote five papers directly related to spectral theory of operators which Hilbert was developing.

In 1913 Otto Toeplitz became an extraordinary professor at the University of Kiel.

Otto Toeplitz died in Jerusalem from tuberculosis a year later.

Otto Toeplitz liked to take walks and talk about scientific questions.

Otto Toeplitz convinced me that the great outline of research comes to light best in dialog.