Background
Herbert Busemann was born in Berlin to a well-to-do family. His father was one of the directors of Krupp, where Busemann also worked for several years.
mathematician university professor
Herbert Busemann was born in Berlin to a well-to-do family. His father was one of the directors of Krupp, where Busemann also worked for several years.
Abitur, Gymnasium, Essen, Germany, 1923. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Southern California, 1986.
He is the author of Busemann"s theorem in Euclidean geometry and geometric tomography. He was also a Fulbright scholar in New Zealand in 1952. He remained in Göttingen as an assistant until 1933, when he escaped Nazi Germany to Copenhagen (he had a Jewish grandfather).
He worked at the University of Copenhagen until 1936, when he left to the United States.
He had temporary positions at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Smith College, and eventually became a professor in 1947 at University of Southern California. He advanced to a distinguished professor in 1964, and continued working at University of Southern California until his retirement in 1970.
Over the course of his work at University of Southern California, he supervised over 10 Doctor of Philosophy students. He is the author of six monographs, two of which were translated into Russian.
Busemann was also an active mathematical citizen.
He could also read Arabic, Latin, Greek and Swedish. He translated a number of papers and monograph, most notably from Russian, a rare language at the time. He also painted and had several public exhibitions.
He died in Santa Ynez, California on February 3, 1994, at the age of 88.
( The basic results and methods of projective and non-Euc...)
He defended his dissertation in University of Göttingen in 1931, where his advisor was Richard Courant.
At different times, he was the president of the California chapter of Mathematical Association of America, and a member of the council of the American Mathematical Society.
Married Ruth Elsa Busemann, September 15, 1939.