Gustav Doetsch

Gustav Doetsch (29 November 1892 – 9 June 1977) was a German mathematician best known for his research on the Laplace transform. He was also a decorated veteran of the First World War, and a pacifist who later supported national socialism. From 1904 to 1911, he attended Wohler High School in Frankfurt, going on to attend the University of Göttingen, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin between 1911 and 1914, studying mathematics, physics and philosophy.

World War One With the outbreak of World War I, his studies were interrupted when he joined the army in October 1914. and position of second-lieutenant. He was offered the chair of mathematics position at the University of Greifswald and the University of Giessen, which he declined, before accepting the mathematics chair position at the University of Freiburg in 1931. which was well-received internationally. The policies of the Nazis began to have an effect on academia in Germany, where Jewish intellectuals were targeted for dismissal. Doetsch approved of the dismissal of colleagues he had at one time collaborated with, such as Edmund Landau, who was his professor when he earned his doctorate at Göttingen, and Felix Bernstein, with whom he had spent much time while researching the Laplace transform. with Dietrich Voelker: Die zweidimensionale Laplace-Transformation. Eine Einführung in ihre Anwendung zur Lösung von Randwertenproblemen nebst Tabellen von Korrespondenzen, Basel Birkhäuser 1950 Handbuch der Laplace-Transformation, 3 vols., Birkhäuser, Basel 1950, 1955, 1956 Einführung in die Theorie und Anwendung der Laplace-Transformation, Birkhäuser 1958, 3rd edn. 1976 (English trans. 1974) Anleitung zum praktischen Gebrauch der Laplace-Transformation, 1961, 3rd edn., Springer 1967 Funktionaltransformationen, in Sauer, R.; Szabó, I. (eds.) Mathematische Hilfsmittel des Ingenieurs, Springer 1967