The eminent Professor Rudolf Fritz of the Department of Mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich will hold a lecture on the 25th of January at the central hall of the university. The lecture will be titled ‘ Constantine Karatheodori (1873-1950): Engineer and Mathematician from Nile to Isar’.
Professor Rudolf Fritz is widely known for having conducted a lot of research on the life and work of the Greek mathematician Constantine Karatheodori.
The Bavaria Church Head Priest, Apostolos Malamousis from Greece, emphasizes that the Greek mathematician was strongly associated with Hellenism in Munich.
In 1924 Constantine Karatheodori was declared a Professor following Lindeman at University of Munich. In 1938 he retired from Professorship, but continued working for the Bavarian Academy of Science.
Karatheodori’s contacts in Germany were numerous and diverse, and included such famous names as: Minkowski, Hilbert, Klein, Einstein, Schwarz, Fejér. During the difficult period of World War II, his close associates at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences were Perron and Tietze.
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