Georg Nöbeling

Georg August Nöbeling (November 12, 1907 – February 16, 2008) was a German mathematician.

Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics in Göttingen and Vienna where he was a student of Karl Menger and received his PhD in 1931 on a generalization of the embedding theorem, which for one special case can be visualized by the Menger sponge. [Karl Sigmund: [http://www.oemg.ac.at/Tagungen/2001/KuehlerAbschied.pdf|"Kühler Abschied von Europa" - Wien 1938 und der Exodus der Mathematik] , pp. 16 seq.] Nöbeling worked and researched in Menger's Mathematical Colloquium with Kurt Gödel, Franz Alt, Abraham Wald, Olga Taussky-Todd and others.

In 1933, he moved to Erlangen where he obtained a professorship at the University of Erlangen in 1940. His work focused on analysis, topology, and geometry. 1968/1969 he solved Specker's theorem on Abelian groups.

As Rector (1962-1963) of the University of Erlangen he oversaw the merge with the business college in Nuremberg. [Source: http://www.uni-erlangen.de/infocenter/presse/pressemitteilungen/2007/nachrichten_2007/11_07/263noebeling.shtml] He also served twice as the chairman of the German Mathematical Society and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He celebrated his 100th birthday in 2007. [cite press release|title = Zum Geburtstag des Mathematikers Prof. Dr. Georg Nöbeling|publisher = Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg|date = 2008-01-14|language = German|url = http://www.presse.uni-erlangen.de/infocenter/presse/pressemitteilungen/2007/nachrichten_2007/11_07/263noebeling.shtml|accessdate = 2008-02-24] [Wulf-Dieter Geyer: " [http://www.badw.de/aktuell/akademie_aktuell/2007/heft4/11_Geyer.pdf Georg Nöbeling zum 100. Geburtstag,] " Akademie Aktuell: Zeitschrift der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften [http://www.badw.de/aktuell/akademie_aktuell/2007/heft4/index.html No. 23 (04/2007)] , 36–38.]

Publications (selected)

* Georg Nöbeling: "Über eine n-dimensionale Universalmenge im $mathbb\{R\}^\{2n+1\}$ (on a n-dimensional universal set for metric spaces in $mathbb\{R\}^\{2n+1\}$." "Mathematische Annalen" 104 (1931), pp. 71-80.
* Georg Nöbeling: "Verallgemeinerung eines Satzes von E. Specker (Generalization of a Theorem by E. Specker)". "Inventiones mathematicae" 6 (1968), pp. 41-55.

Notes

* [http://www.badw.de/mitglieder/v_mit/index.html#n List of deceased fellows of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities] de icon