Oskar Bolza

German mathematician
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Born:
May 12, 1857, Bergzabern, Rhenish Palatinate [Germany]
Died:
July 5, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau, Ger. (aged 85)

Oskar Bolza (born May 12, 1857, Bergzabern, Rhenish Palatinate [Germany]—died July 5, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau, Ger.) was a German mathematician and educator who was particularly noted for his work on the reduction of hyperelliptic to elliptic integrals and for his original contributions to the calculus of variations. Bolza studied at the University of Berlin and received his doctoral degree in 1886 at the University of Göttingen. He accepted a minor position at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., in 1889 and within a year was appointed associate in mathematics at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. In 1893 Bolza joined the department ...(100 of 221 words)