Busemann, Herbert, 1905-1994

LC control no.	n 84802267
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Busemann, Herbert, 1905-1994 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1905-05-12
Death date	1994-02-03
Place of birth	Berlin (Germany)
Place of death	Santa Ynez (Calif.)
Field of activity	Convex geometry Geometry, Differential
Affiliation	University of Southern California Mathematical Association of America American Mathematical Society
Profession or occupation	Mathematicians College teachers
Found in	LCCN 58-10990: His Convex surfaces, 1958 (hdg.: Busemann, Herbert, 1905- ) LC data base, 6-15-84 (hdg.: Busemann, Herbert, 1905- ; usage: Herbert Busemann) Social security death index, June 26, 2003 (Busemann, Herbert; b. May 12, 1905; d. Feb 3, 1994) Wikipedia, August 21, 2018 (Herbert Busemann; Herbert Busemann (12 May 1905--3 February 1994) was a German-American mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry; he is the author of Busemann's theorem in Euclidean geometry and geometric tomography; he was born in Berlin and studied at the Universities of Munich, Paris, and Rome; he defended his dissertation at the University of Göttingen in 1931; he remained in Göttingen as an assistant until 1933, when he escaped Nazi Germany for Copenhagen (he had a Jewish grandfather); he worked at the University of Copenhagen until 1936, when he left for the United States; there, he got married in 1939 and naturalized in 1943; he had temporary positions at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Smith College, and eventually became a professor in 1947 at the University of Southern California; he advanced to a distinguished professor in 1964, and continued working at USC until his retirement in 1970; he was the author of six monographs, president of the California chapter of the Mathematical Association of America, and a member of the council of the American Mathematical Society; he was an accomplished linguist; he was able to read and speak in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Danish; he could also read Arabic, Latin, Greek and Swedish; he translated a number of papers and monograph, most notably from Russian; he was also an accomplished artist and had several public exhibitions of his Hard-edge paintings; he died in Santa Ynez, California at the age of 88)
Associated language	eng