Georg Nöbeling

Georg August Nöbeling (12 November 1907 – 16 February 2008) was a German mathematician.

Georg Nöbeling
Georg Nöbeling, Erlangen 1987
Born	(1907-11-12)November 12, 1907 Lüdenscheid, Germany
Died	February 16, 2008(2008-02-16) (aged 100) Rosenheim, Germany
Education	University of Göttingen University of Vienna
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
Doctoral advisor	Karl Menger
Other academic advisors	Edmund Landau[1] Otto Haupt

Education and career

Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics at University of Göttingen between 1927 and 1929 and University of Vienna, where he was a student of Karl Menger and received his PhD in 1931 on a generalization of the embedding theorem, which for one special case can be visualized by the Menger sponge.^[2] Nöbeling worked and researched in Menger's Mathematical Colloquium with Kurt Gödel, Franz Alt, Abraham Wald, Olga Taussky-Todd and others.

In 1933, he moved to the University of Erlangen, where he habilitated in 1935 under Otto Haupt and obtained a professorship at the same place in 1940. His work focused on analysis, topology, and geometry. 1968/1969 he solved Specker's theorem on abelian groups.

As Rector (1962–1963) of the University of Erlangen he oversaw the merge with the business college in Nuremberg.^[3] He also served twice as the chairman of the German Mathematical Society and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He celebrated his 100th birthday in 2007.^[1][4]

Publications (selected)

• Georg Nöbeling: "Über eine n-dimensionale Universalmenge im ${\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{2n+1}}$ (on a n-dimensional universal set for metric spaces in ${\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{2n+1}}$." Mathematische Annalen 104 (1931), pp. 71–80.
• Georg Nöbeling: "Verallgemeinerung eines Satzes von E. Specker (Generalization of a Theorem by E. Specker)". Inventiones mathematicae 6 (1968), pp. 41–55.

See also

• Inductive dimension
• Universal space