!!!Wirtinger, Wilhelm

b. Ybbs an der Donau (Lower Austria), July 19, 1865, 
d. Ybbs an der Donau, Jan. 14, 1945, one of the most outstanding 
Austrian mathematicians. Studied above all the theory on algebraic 
functions; became a teaching and research assistant at the University 
of Technology in Vienna in 1892, where he succeeded in solving the 
problem posed by general theta functions in 1895 (awarded the Prize of 
the Academy of Goettingen); 1895 Professor at the University of 
Innsbruck, at the University of Vienna from 1903-1935.

!Works
Untersuchungen ueber Thetafunktionen, 1895. - Co-ed.: 
Monatshefte fuer Mathematik und Physik, 1904ff.; Enzyklopaedie der 
mathematischen Wiss., 6 vols., 1923.

!Literature
A. Dick and G. Stoeckl, W. W. (1865-1945), exhibition 
catalogue, Ybbs an der Donau 1986.



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