German-born American mathematician (1924?2021)
Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer
(July 21, 1924 ? March 4, 2021) was a German-born Swiss-American
[1]
mathematician who has contributed to knowledge in
differential geometry
,
topology
,
algebraic geometry
, and
convexity
. He has also contributed volumes on Jewish sacred literature.
Guggenheimer was born in
Nuremberg
, Germany. He is the son of Marguerite Bloch and the physicist Dr.
Siegfried Guggenheimer
. He studied in
Zurich
, Switzerland at the
Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule
, receiving his diploma in 1947 and a
D.Sc.
in 1951. His dissertation was titled "On complex analytic manifolds with Kahler metric". It was published in
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici
[2]
(in German).
Guggenheimer began his teaching career at the
Hebrew University
as a lecturer, 1954?56. He was a professor at the
Bar Ilan University
, 1956?59. In 1959, he immigrated to the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1965.
Washington State University
was his first American post, where he was an associate professor. After one year he moved to
University of Minnesota
where he was raised to a full professor in 1962. While in Minnesota, he wrote
Differential Geometry
(1963), a
textbook
treating "classical problems with modern methods". According to
Robert Hermann
in 1979, "Among today's treatises, the best one from the point of view of the
Erlangen Program
is
Differential Geometry
by H. Guggenheimer, Dover Publications, 1977."
[3]
In 1967 Guggenheimer published
Plane Geometry and its Groups
(Holden Day), and moved to
New York City
to teach at Polytechnic University, now called
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
. In 1977, he published
Applicable Geometry: Global and Local Convexity
.
[4]
Until 1995 Guggenheimer produced a steady stream of papers in mathematical journals. As a supervisor of graduate study in Minnesota and New York, he had six students proceed to Ph.D.s with theses supervised by him, two in Minnesota and four in New York. See the link to the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
below.
Guggenheimer has also contributed to literature on
Judaism
. In 1966, he wrote "Logical problems in Jewish tradition".
[5]
The next year he contributed "Magic and Dialect" to
Diogenes
[6]
where he examines the supposition that "knowledge of the right name gives power over the bearer of that name". In 1995 Guggenheimer presented his
A Scholar's Haggadah
, which makes a bilingual comparison of variances in the traditions of
Passover
observance. It includes
Ashkenazic
,
Sephardic
, and Oriental sources. His study of the
Jerusalem Talmud
provided text and commentary.
[7]
He died in March 2021 at the age of 96.
Family
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On June 6, 1947, Guggenheimer married Eva Auguste Horowitz. Together they wrote
Jewish Family Names and their Origins: an Etymological Dictionary
(1992).
[8]
They have two sons, Michael, a professor of Arabic,
[9]
and Tobias I. S., an architect,
[10]
and two daughters Dr. Esther Furman, a biochemist,
[11]
and Hanna Y. Guggenheimer, an artist.
Notes
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- ^
"Henry Walter Guggenheimer"
.
GENi
. Retrieved
June 4,
2020
.
- ^
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici
:25:257?97
- ^
Robert Hermann
(1979) "Conformal and Non-Euclidean Geometry in R
3
from the Kleinian Viewpoint", Appendix A, page 367 of
Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century
by Felix Klein, Math Sci Press, Boston.
- ^
Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, Huntington N.Y.
- ^
Ph. Longworth ed. (1966)
Confrontations with Judaism
- ^
Diogenes
(15:80?6)
- ^
H. Guggenheimer (2000 to 2015)
The Jerusalem Talmud
,
De Gruyter
- ^
KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-88125-297-2
, 882 pages.
Google Books
- ^
Michael, Guggenheimer.
"Faculty"
.
NYU.edu
. Retrieved
June 3,
2020
.
- ^
Guggenheimer, Tobias.
"NYS Professions-Online Verifications"
.
nysed.gov
. Retrieved
June 3,
2020
.
- ^
Guggenheimer, Esther.
"Esther Guggenheimer-Furman's research works"
.
ResearchGate
. Retrieved
June 3,
2020
.
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