LIPSCHITZ, RUDOLF:
German mathematician; born May 14, 1832, at Königsberg, East Prussia; died at Bonn Oct. 8, 1903. Educated at his native town (Ph.D. 1853), he established himself in 1857 as privat-docent in the University of Bonn, becoming professor of mathematics in the University of Breslau in 1862, and in that of Bonn in 1864.
Lipschitz was the author of: "Wissenschaft und Staat," Bonn, 1874; "Die Bedeutung der Theoretischen Mechanik," Berlin, 1876; "Lehrbuch der Analysis," Bonn, 1877-80; "Untersuchungen über die Summen von Quadraten," ib. 1886.
Bibliography:
- Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon.
