Rudolf Inzinger was an Austria

Austria

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n mathematician who made contributions to differential geometry, the theory of convex bodies, and inverse problem

Inverse problem

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s for sound waves.

Biography

Born in Vienna

Vienna

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, he was a student at the Technische Hochschule

Vienna University of Technology

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in the same city. In 1933 he defended his PhD Die Liesche Abbildung and in 1936 he received his habilitation

Habilitation

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. After the Anschluss

Anschluss

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 he had to leave. After his return from war captivity he started again working at the Technische Hochschule

Technische Hochschule

Technische Hochschule is what an Institute of Technology used to be called in German-speaking countries, as well as in the Netherlands, before most of them changed their name to Technische Universität or Technische Universiteit in the 1970s and in the...

 in Vienna in 1945 where he was appointed associated professor in 1946 and promoted to full professor one year later.

In 1946 he reestablished the Austrian Mathematical Society

Austrian Mathematical Society

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whose president he was until 1948. In 1968/69 he served as president of the Technische Hochschule in Vienna.

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