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Philipp Furtwängler
Friederich Pius Philipp Furtwängler (April 21, 1869 – May 19, 1940) was a German number theorist.
Biography.
Furtwängler wrote an 1896 doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen on cubic forms ("Zur Theorie der in Linearfaktoren zerlegbaren ganzzahlingen ternären kubischen Formen"), under Felix Klein. Most of his academic life, from 1912 to 1938, was spent at the University of Vienna, where he taught for example Kurt Gödel, who later said that Furtwängler's lectures on number theory were the
Furtwängler
Furtwängler is a German surname, originally meaning a person from Furtwangen. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adolf Furtwängler (1853–1907), archaeologist and art historian
- Maria Furtwängler (born 1966), physician and actress
- Philipp Furtwängler (1869–1940), mathematician
- Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954), conductor and composer
Also.
- The Furtwängler Glacier, named for Walter Furtwängler