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Edmund Hlawka
Austrian mathematician

Edmund Hlawka

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Austrian mathematician
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Bruck an der Mur, Bruck-Mürzzuschlag District, Styria, Austria
Place of death
Vienna, Austria
Age
92 years
Residence
Austria
Education
University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria
(1934-1938)
Employers
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, Mercer County, USA
(1959-1959)
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
(1938-1981)
TU Wien
Vienna, Austria
(1981-1987)
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, Los Angeles County, USA
(1967-1967)
Notable Works
Ungleichung von Hornich-Hlawka
 
Minkowski–Hlawka theorem
 
Zur Geometrie der Zahlen
 
Awards
Wilhelm Exner Medal
(1982)
Erwin Schrödinger Prize
(1978)
Dannie Heineman Prize
(1963)
honorary doctor of the University of Vienna
 
Prize of the City of Vienna for the Humanities
(1969)
honorary doctorate of the University of Graz
 
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
(1963)
Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
(2007)
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Biography

Edmund Hlawka (November 5, 1916, Bruck an der Mur, Styria – February 19, 2009) was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Hlawka did most of his work at the Vienna University of Technology. He was also a visiting professor at Princeton University and the Sorbonne. Hlawka died on February 19, 2009 in Vienna.
Hlawka studied at the University of Vienna from 1934 to 1938, when he gained his doctorate. Among his PhD students were Rainer Burkard, later to become president of the Austrian Society for Operations Research, graph theorist Gert Sabidussi, Cole Prize winner Wolfgang M. Schmidt, Walter Knödel who became one of the first German computer science professors, and Hermann Maurer, also a computer scientist. Through these and other students, Hlawka has nearly 1500 academic descendants. Hlawka was awarded the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in 2007.

Honours and awards

  • Decoration for Science and Art (Austria, 1963)
  • City of Vienna Prize for the Humanities (1969)
  • Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria, Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star (2007); Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold (1987)
  • Wilhelm Exner Medal (1982).
  • Joseph Johann Ritter von Prechtl Medal (1989)
  • Erwin Schrödinger Prize

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