Charles Loewner
Mathematician, Academic
1893 – 1968
Who was Charles Loewner?
Charles Loewner was an American mathematician. His name was Karel Löwner in Czech and Karl Löwner in German.
Karl Loewner was born into a Jewish family in Lany, about 30 km from Prague, where his father Sigmund Löwner was a store owner.
Loewner received his Ph.D. from the University of Prague in 1917 under supervision of Georg Pick. One of his central mathematical contributions is the proof of the Bieberbach conjecture in the first highly nontrivial case of the third coefficient. The technique he introduced, the Loewner differential equation, has had far-reaching implications in geometric function theory; it was used in the final solution of the Bieberbach conjecture by Louis de Branges in 1985. Loewner worked at the University of Berlin, University of Prague, Louisville University, Brown University, Syracuse University and eventually at Stanford University. His students include Lipman Bers, Roger A. Horn, Adriano Garsia, and P. M. Pu.
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- Born
- May 29, 1893
Lány - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Charles University in Prague
- Died
- Jan 8, 1968
Stanford
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on July 23, 2013
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