!!!Hofreiter, Nikolaus

b. Linz (Upper Austria), May 8, 1904, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 23, 1990, mathematician. Studied at Vienna University, 
where he became a professor in 1939, 1944-1946 at Braunschweig 
Technical University, from 1954 again at Vienna University (1965/66 
rector). Research mainly into the geometry of numbers and algebra 
(Euclidian algorithm).

!Publications
Quadratische Zahlkoerper ohne euklid. Algorithmus, 1934; 
Diophantische Approximationen, 1937.

!Literature
R. Einhorn, Vertreter der Mathematik und Geometrie an den 
Wr. Hochschulen 1900-40, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1985.



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