Person: Kober, Hermann

Hermann Kober was a Polish-born mathematician who spent much of his life as a school teacher in England but published many papers on analysis.

Breslau was the sixth largest city of Germany and, in that thriving industrial city, Kober attended school.
Kober chose to study at Göttingen, famed as a centre for mathematics, where he was one of Landau's first students.
Kober was forced out of his teaching post in 1934 but he continued with his teaching career, now at a Jewish school in Breslau.
Suddenly Kober's research career went into overdrive.
She was herself a mathematician and played a large role in Kober's mathematical research taking off.
Birmingham awarded Kober an M.Sc. in 1940 and a D.Sc. in 1943.
By 1943 Kober had published 30 mathematical papers and he continued to undertake mathematical research for the rest of his life.
Kober was a highly productive mathematician working on special functions, functional analysis (in this area Kober's Theorem which appeared A theorem on Banach spaces (1939) is named after him), approximation theory and the theory of functions of a real variable.
In the 1970s, although by that time in his 80s, Kober published: New properties of the Weyl extended integral (1970); Some new properties of the Poisson operator (1971); and The infinite strip in the complex plane and Poisson's operator (1972).

Born 1 February 1888, Beuthen (now Bytom), Upper Silesia (now Poland). Died 4 October 1973, Birmingham, England.

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