Rudolf Luneburg

Rudolf Karl Lüneburg (1903–1949, after his emigration at first Lueneburg, later Luneburg) was a professor of mathematics and optics at the Dartmouth College Eye Institute. He was born in Germany, received his doctorate at Göttingen, and emigrated to the United States in 1935.

His work included an analysis of the geometry of visual space as expected from physiognomy and the assumption that the angle of vergence provides a constant measure of distance. From these premises he concluded that near field visual space is hyperbolic.

Bibliography

* cite book
last = Lüneburg
first = Rudolf Karl
title = Das Problem der Irrfahrt ohne Richtungsbeschränkung und die Randwertaufgabe der Potentialtheorie (Dissertation)
publisher = Universität Göttingen
date = 1930
location = Göttingen
puplished in: cite journal
last = Lüneburg
first = Rudolf
title = Das Problem der Irrfahrt ohne Richtungsbeschränkung und die Randwertaufgabe der Potentialtheorie
journal= Mathematische Annalen
volume = 104
date = 1931
pages = 700–738
url = http://www.digizeitschriften.de/index.php?id=loader&tx_jkDigiTools_pi1%5BIDDOC%5D=363477
* cite book
last = Luneberg
first = Rudolf Karl
title = Mathematical Theory of Optics
publisher = Brown University
date = 1944
location = Providence, Rhode Island
pages = 401:* Reprint: cite book| | last = Luneburg
first = Rudolf Karl
title = Mathematical Theory of Optics
publisher = University of California Press
date = 1964
location = Berkeley & Los Angeles
pages = 401
* cite book
last = Luneburg
first = Rudolf Karl
title = Mathematical Analysis of Binocular Vision
publisher = Princeton University Press
date = 1947
location = Princeton
pages =

ee also

*Luneburg lens