Three more comments on Vietoris..........DMD _________________________________ Subject: Re: four on Vietoris Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:26:34 +0100 From: Andrew Ranicki There was an article about Vietoris in a fairly recent Mathematical Intelligencer, including the information that until the age of 90 or so he took part in the annual Innsbruck ski championship, regularly winning in his age group (for the canonical reason). Mayer was an assistant of Einstein. Andrew Ranicki --------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Ranicki Andrew Ranicki Cellular: (44) 7801490836 Fax: (44) (131) 650 6553 Home: (44) (131) 667 1842 Work: (44) (131) 650 5073 __________________________________ Subject: Re: Question about Vietoris Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:12:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Rusin Some sources of information about Leopold Vietoris: 99d:01035 Reitberger, Heinrich The contributions of L. Vietoris and H. Tietze to the foundations of general topology. Handbook of the history of general topology, Vol. 1, 31--40, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, 1997. 84a:01050 Liedl, R.; Reitberger, H. Leopold Vietoris---90 Jahre. (German) [Leopold Vietoris---90 years] Yearbook: Surveys of mathematics 1982, pp. 169--170, Bibliographisches Inst., Mannheim, 1982 1 413 253 Helmberg, Gilbert; Sigmund, Karl Nestor of mathematicians: Leopold Vietoris turns 105. Math. Intelligencer 18 (1996), no. 4, 47--50. 1 772 299 Helmburg, Gilbert Leopold Vietoris (109). Der älteste lebende Österreicher. (German) [Leopold Vietoris (109). The oldest living Austrian] Mitt. Dtsch. Math.-Ver. 2000, no. 3, 44--46. Here is additional information from http://felix.unife.it/Root/d-Mathematics/d-The-mathematician/t-Mathematicians-A-Z#V Leopold Vietoris (nato 1891) 1994 Ehrendoktorat an der Fakultät für Architektur der Universität Innsbruck. In der Topologie bekannt durch das Vietoris-Axiom, die Vietoris-Topologie, die Vietoris-Homologie, die Mayer- Vietoris-Folge. Hat auch über das Festigkeitsverhalten des alpinen Skis, über die Physik der Block- gletscher und über Orientierung im Gelände geschrieben. 1928 Ordinarius an der TH Wien, 1930-1960 Ordinarius in Innsbruck. 8582 Roman Liedl: Leopold Vietoris zum 103. Geburtstag. In 8567 Beutelspacher/, 189. The only student of his listed at http://hcoonce.math.mankato.msus.edu/ is Helmut Groemer Just for the record, with the recent passing of Dirk Struik I don't know of any other mathematicians over 100. Some well-known people who are over 90 (unless I missed notice of their passing) include Henri Cartan (b. 1904), Sergei Nikolskii (1905), Mitio Nagumo (1905), HSM Coxeter (1907), Saunders MacLane (1909), Bernhard Neumann (1909), Vitalii Ditkin (1910), and S.S. Chern (1911). _________________________________________ Subject: Re: Question about Vietoris Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:41:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Douglas C. Ravenel" Three weeks ago while visiting the University of Washington I was asked to sign a birthday card (110) addressed to him. Doug Douglas C. Ravenel, Chair |918 Hylan Building Department of Mathematics |drav@math.rochester.edu University of Rochester |(716) 275-4413 Rochester, New York 14627 |FAX (716) 273-4655 Personal home page: http://www.math.rochester.edu/u/drav/