Background
HLAWKA, Edmund was born on November 5, 1916 in Brack a.d.
mathematician university professor
HLAWKA, Edmund was born on November 5, 1916 in Brack a.d.
Hlawka studied at the University of Vienna from 1934 to 1938, when he gained his doctorate.
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.
Through these and other students, Hlawka has nearly 1500 academic descendants.
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.
Austrian Academy, of Sciences, Academy Leopoldina, Rheinisch-Westfalische Akademie, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Accad. di Bologna.
Married Rosa Reiterer.
