Lothar collatz biography of abraham

Lothar Collatz, like most German students of his time, studied at a number of different universities. He entered the University of Greifswald in 1928, moving to Munich, then to Göttingen, and finally to Berlin where he studied for his doctorate under Alfred Klose.

Collatz was awarded his doctorate in 1935 for his dissertation Das Differenzenverfahren mit höherer Approximation für lineare DifferentialgleichungeⓉ. In [8] Meinardus and Nürnberger write:-

He often told how much he had been impressed by the lectures of Hilbert, Courant, von Mises, Schur, and other famous mathematicians of that period.

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He was convinced that mathematics and mathematicians had a responsibility to apply their results to, and be motivated by, real world phenomena. he never wearied of fighting for this conviction.

Many will know the name of Collatz today because of the "Collatz problem".

In many ways it might seem a pity that a mathematician who has produced so much important and fundament