Biography:William Threlfall

Short description: German mathematician

William Threlfall in 1936

William Richard Maximilian Hugo Threlfall (25 June 1888, in Dresden – 4 April 1949, in Oberwolfach) was a British-born Germany mathematician who worked on algebraic topology. He was a coauthor of the standard textbook Lehrbuch der Topologie.

In 1933 he signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State.

Publications

• Threlfall, W. (1932), "Gruppenbilder", Abh. Math.-Phys. Kl. Sächs. Akad. Wiss. (Leipzig: Hirzel) 41: 1–59, http://digital.slub-dresden.de/fileadmin/data/304910686/304910686_tif/jpegs/304910686.pdf 
• Seifert, Threlfall: Lehrbuch der Topologie, Teubner 1934
• Seifert, Threlfall: Variationsrechnung im Großen, Teubner 1938

See also

• Möbius–Kantor graph
• Schwarz triangle tessellation

References

• Gabriele Dörflinger: William R. M. H. Threlfall
• William Threlfall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project