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Carl Ludwig Siegel never got married, devoting his entire life to mathematics. Even in his old age, his mental power remained unabated and he published number of papers in his seventies. He also went on lecture tours to various countries. He died on April 4, 1981 in Göttingen, West Germany, at the age of 84.
Carl Ludwig Siegel. 1896-1981. German mathematician who won recognition for his work on the theory of numbers. Born in Berlin, Siegel held professorships at Frankfurt and Göttingen from 1922 to 1940. He subsequently traveled to the United States and worked at Princeton University until 1951, then returned to Göttingen. Siegel built upon the ...
1956. 223. Wienholtz, Ernst. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. 1957. 212. According to our current on-line database, Carl Siegel has 18 students and 1575 descendants. We welcome any additional information. If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form.
Nov 6, 2012 · As was custom, Weil often attended tea at [Princeton] University . Graduate student Steven Weintrab one day went about the room asking various famous mathematicians who was the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century. When he asked Weil, the answer (without hesitation) was "Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896-1981)."
Mar 30, 2024 · Carl Ludwig Siegel in Göttingen, 1975 Carl Ludwig Siegel (31 December 1896 – 4 April 1981) was a German mathematician who won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1978. This article about a mathematician is a stub .
Apr 15, 1981 · Prof. Carl Ludwig Siegel, one of this century's leading mathematicians, died April 5 in Gottingen, West Germany, at the age of 84. He made fundamental discoveries in the theory of numbers, the ...
About this book. Carl Ludwig Siegel gave a course of lectures on the Geometry of Numbers at New York University during the academic year 1945-46, when there were hardly any books on the subject other than Minkowski's original one. This volume stems from Siegel's requirements of accuracy in detail, both in the text and in the illustrations, but ...
