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Kurt Otto Friedrichs was born on 28 September, 1901 in Kiel, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire, is a German-American mathematician (1901–1982). Discover Kurt Otto Friedrichs's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 28 September 1901
Birthday 28 September
Birthplace Kiel, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire
Date of death 31 December, 1982
Died Place New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1901

Kurt Otto Friedrichs (September 28, 1901 – December 31, 1982) was a German-American mathematician.

He was the co-founder of the Courant Institute at New York University, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science.

Friedrichs was born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein on September 28, 1901.

His family soon moved to Düsseldorf, where he grew up.

He attended several different universities in Germany studying the philosophical works of Heidegger and Husserl, but finally decided that mathematics was his real calling.

1920

During the 1920s, Friedrichs pursued this field in Göttingen, which had a renowned Mathematical Institute under the direction of Richard Courant.

Courant became a close colleague and lifelong friend of Friedrichs.

1931

In 1931, Friedrichs became a full professor of mathematics at the Technische Hochschule in Braunschweig.

1933

In early February 1933, a few days after Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany, Friedrichs met and immediately fell in love with a young Jewish student, Nellie Bruell.

Their relationship became increasingly challenging and difficult because of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws of Hitler's government.

Courant had left Germany in 1933 and had founded an institute for graduate studies in mathematics at New York University.

1937

In 1937, both Friedrichs and Nellie Bruell managed to emigrate separately to New York City where they finally married.

Their long and very happy marriage produced five children.

Friedrichs joined him when he arrived in 1937 and remained there for forty years.

He was instrumental in the development of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, which eventually became one of the most distinguished research institutes for applied mathematics in the world.

1954

The American Mathematical Society selected him as the Josiah Willards Gibbs lecturer for 1954.

1959

A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1959, Friedrichs received many honorary degrees and awards for his work.

There is a student prize named after Friedrichs at NYU.

1977

In November 1977, Friedrichs received the National Medal of Science from President Jimmy Carter "for bringing the powers of modern mathematics to bear on problems in physics, fluid dynamics, and elasticity."

1982

Friedrichs died in New Rochelle, New York on December 31, 1982.

Friedrichs's greatest contribution to applied mathematics was his work on partial differential equations.

He also did major research and wrote many books and papers on existence theory, numerical methods, differential operators in Hilbert space, non-linear buckling of plates, flows past wings, solitary waves, shock waves, combustion, magneto-fluid dynamical shock waves, relativistic flows, quantum field theory, perturbation of the continuous spectrum, scattering theory, and symmetric hyperbolic equations.

With Cartan, Friedrichs gave a "geometrized" formulation of Newtonian gravitation theory—also known

as “Newton–Cartan theory”— and later developed by Dautcourt, Dixon, Dombrowski and Horneffer, Ehlers, Havas, Künzle, Lottermoser, Trautman, and others.