Theorie Und Anwendung Der Unendlichen Reihen (Dritte Vermehrte Und Verbesserte Auflage)

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1931. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good. Xii, 582 + 2 Pp Ads At Rear. Yellow Cloth Printed In Black. Third Printing, Enlarge And Improved. Wear At Ends Of Spine And At Tips, With A Little Fraying; Professorial Bookplate, And One Loose Page Of His Notes; Spine Leaned. Konrad Hermann Theodor Knopp (1882 -1957) Was A German Mathematician Who Worked On Generalized Limits And Complex Functions. Konrad Was Primarily Educated In Berlin, With A Brief Sojourn At The University Of Lausanne In 1901 For A Single Semester, Before Settling At The University Of Berlin, Where He Remained For His Doctoral Studies. His Doctoral Thesis, Entitled Grenzwerte Von Reihen Bei Der Annäherung An Die Konvergenzgrenze, Was Supervised By Schottky And Frobenius; He Received His Phd In 1907. Knopp Traveled Widely In Asia, Taking Teaching Jobs In Nagasaki, Japan (1908-9), At The Commercial College, And In Qingdao, China (1910-11), At The German-Chinese College There, And Spending Some Time In India And China Following His Stay In Japan. His Wedding To Kressner, The Daughter Of Colonel Karl Kressner And Hedwig Rebling, Took Place In Germany Between These Periods. After Qingdao He Returned To Germany For Good And Taught At Military Academies While Writing His Habilitation Thesis For Berlin University. During The First World War He Was An Officer And Was Wounded At The Beginning Of The War, Which Resulted In His Discharge From The Army; By The Autumn Of 1914 He Was Teaching At Berlin University. In The Following Year He Was Appointed As An Extraordinary Professor At The University Of Königsberg, Becoming An Ordinary Professor There In 1919. In 1926 He Accepted A Professorship At University Of Tübingen As The Chair Of Mathematics, And Remained There Until His Retirement In 1950. In 1918, Knopp Was One Of The Co-Founders Of The Journal Mathematische Zeitschrift (In Which The Majority Of His Above-Cited Articles Are Published). He Was The Editor Of The Journal From 1934 To 1952. He Continued Writing About Mathematics After His Retirement.