Hermann Rothe

Mathematician, Deceased Person

1882 – 1923

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Who was Hermann Rothe?

Hermann Rothe was an Austrian mathematician.

Rothe studied at the University of Vienna and the University of Göttingen. He attained the Doctorate in Engineering in 1909 in Vienna. Then he was assistant at the Vienna University of Technology, where he attained the Habilitation in 1910. In 1913 Rothe married and began to teach mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology as Professor extraordinarius, and from 1920 as Professor ordinarius. In 1923 he died after a long disease.

Rothe is known for his collaboration with Philipp Frank on special relativity. Based on group theory, they tried to derive the Lorentz transformation without the postulate of the constancy of the speed of light.

Furthermore Rothe workedoutside his teaching activity — on mathematical problems like Hermann Grassmann's "Ausdehnungslehre".

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Born
Dec 28, 1882
Vienna
Nationality
  • Austria
Profession
Education
  • University of Vienna
Died
Dec 18, 1923
Vienna

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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