Biography:Felix Frankl
Felix Issidorowitsch Frankl (12 March 1905, Vienna – 7 Aprile 1961, Nalchik Russian: Феликс Исидорович Франкль) was an Austrian mathematician, who went to live in the Soviet Union where he had an academic career as a university professor.[1]
He studied topology at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna under Hans Hahn, gaining his doctorate in 1927.[2]
Frankl joined the Austrian Communist Party in 1928 and (with the assistance of Pavel Aleksandrov) emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1929.[3] Here he initially collaborated with Lev Pontryagin in topology (they a paper co-authored a paper published in 1930 in the Mathematische Annalen. His interests then shifted to certain particular differential equations which are important for high-speed aerodynamics. These differential equations were of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic type. They determined the transition in aerodynamics between transonic and supersonic speeds.
He attended the First International Topological Conference held in Moscow in 1935.[4] In 1957 he was awarded the Leonhard Euler Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1]
In 1950 he was expelled from the communist party and exiled to Bishkek.[3] He died in 1961 in Nalchik.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Франкль Феликс Исидорович" (in ru). Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. http://encyclopedia.mil.ru/encyclopedia/dictionary/details_rvsn.htm?id=14020@morfDictionary.
- ↑ "Франкль Феликс Исидорович" (in ru). :ru:Научное Наследие России. 16 March 2015. http://library.ruslan.cc/authors/%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81-%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Pasha Zusmanovich, "Mathematicians Going East," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 14 Issue 1 (January 2024), pages 114-167. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.EGCM7534. Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol14/iss1/8. Pages 121-22.
- ↑ Apushkinskaya, Darya E.; Nazarov, Alexander I.; Sinkevich, Galina I. (December 2019). "In Search of Shadows: The First Topological Conference, Moscow 1935". The Mathematical Intelligencer 41 (4): 37–42. doi:10.1007/s00283-019-09907-6.
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