Georg August Nöbeling (12 November 1907 – 16 February 2008) was a German mathematician.
Education and career Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics at University of Göttingen between 1927 and 1929 and University of Vienna, where he was a student of Karl Menger and received his PhD in 1931 on a generalization of the embedding theorem, which for one special case can be visualized by the Menger sponge.Karl Sigmund:"Kühler Abschied von Europa" - Wien 1938 und der Exodus der Mathematik, pp. 16 seq. Nöbeling worked and researched in Menger's Mathematical Colloquium with Kurt Gödel, Franz Alt, Abraham Wald, Olga Taussky-Todd and others.
In 1933, he moved to the University of Erlangen, where he habilitated in 1935 under Otto Haupt and obtained a professorship at the same place in 1940. His work focused on analysis, topology, and geometry. 1968/1969 he solved Specker's theorem on abelian groups.
As Rector (1962–1963) of the University of Erlangen he oversaw the merge with the business college in Nuremberg.Source: He also served twice as the chairman of the German Mathematical Society and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He celebrated his 100th birthday in 2007.Wulf-Dieter Geyer: "Georg Nöbeling zum 100. Geburtstag," Akademie Aktuell: Zeitschrift der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften No. 23 (04/2007) , 36–38.
Publications (selected) Georg Nöbeling: "Über eine n-dimensionale Universalmenge im (on a n-dimensional universal set for metric spaces in ." Mathematische Annalen 104 (1931), pp. 71–80. Georg Nöbeling: "Verallgemeinerung eines Satzes von E. Specker (Generalization of a Theorem by E. Specker)". Inventiones mathematicae 6 (1968), pp. 41–55.
See also Inductive dimension Universal space
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External links List of deceased fellows of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities