Felix Bernstein (mathematician)

Not to be confused with Felix Bernstein (performance artist).
Felix Bernstein
Born (1878-02-24)24 February 1878
Halle
Died 3 December 1956(1956-12-03) (aged 78)
Zurich
Alma mater Göttingen University
Theses
Doctoral advisor David Hilbert
Doctoral students Paul Beck, Martin Gauger, Ruth Heidemann, Hermann Hitzler, Siegfried Koller, Alfred Müller, Hans Münzner, Werner Rups, Walter Schwarzburg, Hans Thunsdorff
Known for Schröder–Bernstein theorem
Children Marianne Bernstein-Wiener[1]:7r

Felix Bernstein (24 February 1878, Halle, Germany – 3 December 1956, Zurich, Switzerland), was a German Jewish mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896,[1]:5–6[2][3][note 1] and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis.

Life

While still in gymnasium in Halle, Bernstein heard the university seminar of Georg Cantor, who was a friend of Bernstein's father Julius.[1]:5r From 1896 to 1900, Bernstein studied in Munich, Halle, Berlin and Göttingen.[4]:166 In the early Weimar Republic, Bernstein temporarily was Göttingen vice-chairman of the German Democratic Party.[5]:7[6]:118[7] In 1933,[note 2] after Hitler's rise to power, Bernstein was deprived from his chair, per §6 of the Nazi Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, often used against politically unpopular persons. He received the message of his dismissal during a research/lecturing journey (started on Dec. 1st, 1932) to the United States, and he stayed there.[4]:166[5]:7–8[7] In 1948, Bernstein retired from teaching in the USA, and returned to Europe.[2] He mainly lived in Rome and Freiburg, occasionally visiting Göttingen,[4]:166 where he became professor emeritus.[2] He died of cancer in Zurich on 3 December 1956.[1]:6r[2]

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ In 1897 (aged 19), according to Oliver Deiser (2010). "Zeittafel zur frühen Mengenlehre" (PDF). Einführung in die Mengenlehre — Die Mengenlehre Georg Cantors und ihre Axiomatisierung durch Ernst Zermelo (3rd ed.). Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 3-540-20401-6.
  2. ↑ In 1934, according to O'Connor, Robertson (MacTutor).

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Crow, J. F. (1993). "Felix Bernstein and the first human marker locus". Genetics. 133 (1): 4–7. PMC 1205297Freely accessible. PMID 8417988.
  2. 1 2 3 4 O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Felix Bernstein (mathematician)", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
  3. ↑ Nathan, Henry (1970–80). "Bernstein, Felix". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
  4. 1 2 3 Max Pinl (1970). "Kollegen in einer dunklen Zeit (2)" (PDF). Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 72: 165—189.
  5. 1 2 Norbert Schappacher (1987). "Das Mathematische Institut der Universität Göttingen 1929—1950" (PDF). In Becker, Dahms, Wegeler. Die Universität Göttingen unter dem Nationalsozialismus. München: K.G.Saur. pp. 345—373. — Schappacher gives a lot of details from the Göttingen University archive.
  6. ↑ Barbara Marshall (1972). The Political Development of German University Towns in the Weimar Republic: Göttingen and Münster 1918—1930 (Ph.D. thesis). Univ. of London.
  7. 1 2 Steffi Laemmle; Willy Tiabou; Christoph Bichlmeier (May 2003). "Verfolgte Mathematiker (Persecuted Mathematicians)". Seminar für überfachliche Grundlagen: Mathematiker in der NS-Zeit (Term Paper). TU Munich.

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