Hermann Rothe

Hermann Rothe (* December 28 1882 in Vienna; † December 18 1923 in Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician.

Rothe studied at the University of Vienna and the University of Göttingen. He attained the Doctorate in Engineering in 1909 in Vienna. Then he was assistant at the Vienna University of Technology, where he attained the Habilitation in 1910. In 1913 Rothe married and began to teach mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology as Professor extraordinarius, and from 1920 as Professor ordinarius. In 1923 he died after a long disease. [Cite journal
author=Radon, J.
year=1926
title=Hermann Rothe: Nachruf
journal=Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung
volume =35
pages =172-175]

Rothe is known for his collaboration (1910–1912) with Philipp Frank on special relativity. Based on group theory, they tried to derive the Lorentz transformation without the postulate of the constancy of the speed of light. [Cite journal
author=Pauli, W.
year=1921
journal=Encyclopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften
title= Die Relativitätstheorie
pages=556
volume=5.2
url=http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/img/?IDDOC=201990]

Furthermore Rothe worked — outside his teaching activity — on mathematical problems like Hermann Grassmann's "Ausdehnungslehre" (theory of extension, or exterior algebra).

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Publications

*Cite journal
author=Frank, P. & Rothe, H.
year=1910
title=Über die Transformation der Raum-Zeitkoordinaten von ruhenden auf bewegte Systeme
journal=Annalen der Physik
volume =34
pages =825-855
url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15337j/f845.table

*Cite journal
author=Rothe, H.
year=1921
title=Systeme geometrischer Analyse
journal=Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften mit Einschluss ihrer Anwendungen
volume=3.1