Club

Go to The Main Page Add Club to favorite!

Vaclav Hlavaty 

Václav Hlavatý (27 January 1894-11 January 1969) was a noted Czech-American mathematician, who wrote on the Theory of Relativity and corresponded extensively with Albert Einstein on the subject.[1] In particular, Hlavatý solved some very difficult equations relating to Einstein's Unified field theory, which featured in the news media as one of the great scientific achievements of 1953.[2] Einstein himself was reported to have said in advance that if anyone could solve the equations it would be Professor Hlavatý, which proved to be the case.[3]

He was born in Louny, (now in the Czech Republic) and died in Bloomington, Indiana. He first worked at the Charles University in Prague [4] and during World War II participated in the Prague uprising[3], but his academic career was mainly at Indiana University, which he joined in 1948, and where he became Professor Emeritus of Mathematics. A special book of mathematical essays was published in his honour.[5].


Some Publications

  • Václav Hlavatý (1952) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Mar. 15, 1952), pp. 243-247 "The Elementary Basic Principles of the Unified Theory of Relativity"
  • Václav Hlavatý (1952) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 38, No. 5 (May 15, 1952), pp. 415-419 "The Einstein Connection of the Unified Theory of Relativity"
  • Václav Hlavatý (1952) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 38, No. 12 (Dec 15, 1952), pp. 1052-1058 "The Schrödinger Final Affine Field Laws"
  • Václav Hlavatý (1953) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Jun. 15, 1953), pp. 501-506 "The Spinor Connection in the Unified Einstein Theory of Relativity"
  • Václav Hlavatý (1953) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Jun. 15, 1953), pp. 507-510 "Connections Between Einstein's Two Unified Theories of Relativity"
  • Václav Hlavatý (1957) Geometry of Einstein’s Unified Field Theory, P. Noordhoff Ltd., Groningen

References

  1. ^ Indiana University fast facts
  2. ^ Johns Hopkins Television Programs 1948-1960
  3. ^ a b Václav HlavatýBiography citing the New York Herald Tribune
  4. ^ V. Hlavatý (1928) Mathematische Zeitschrift, Vol 28, No 1, Bemerkung zur Arbeit von Herrn T. Y. Thomas
  5. ^ B. Hoffman (ed.) (1966) Perspectives in Geometry and Relativity. Essays in Honor of Václav Hlavatý Indiana University Press
This article about a mathematician from the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Could not update stat
UP