Karl-Heinrich Weise

Karl Heinrich Weise (24 May 1909, Gera – 15 April 1990, Kiel) was a German mathematician. In 1956 he was the president of the German Mathematical Society (Deutsche-Mathematiker Vereinigung, DMV).

Biography Karl-Heinrich Weise, the son of a middle school teacher, His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Robert König, At the University of Jena, Weise was from 1935 to 1937 wissenschaftliche Assistent and from 1937 to 1942 Privatdozent. His NSDAP-Mitgliedsnummer was 5663631. From 1940 to 1945 he held an appointment as wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Potsdam. At Kiel University, he became in November 1942 planmässiger ausserordentlicher Professor (associate professor with tenure) and in November 1945 ordentlicher Professor (full professor) becoming the successor of Adolf Hammerstein

During WW II, academic lectures stopped in Kiel from 1943 to mid-1945 due to bombing raids. During the bombing, the rooms of Kiel University's Mathematisches Seminar had been completely destroyed. At the end of 1945 Weise was in charge of making a new start. The first mathematical courses were given on a ship that had escaped destruction. Weise and Friedrich Bachmann had leading roles in reestablishing mathematics in Kiel during the postwar era. Weise was the Kiel University's rector from 1952 to 1953. He was early in realizing the importance of electronic computers for applied mathematics. With the nuclear physicist Erich Bagge, he founded Kiel University's computer center. The center's first computer was a Z22 Later, the center acquired an X1 and an X8 from Electrologica. Weise, with an assistant, did computations on problems in knot theory. became the Kiel University's first professor of computer science. Schlender developed computer methods for symbolic manipulations of formulas involving trigonometric functions and was a pioneer of computational group theory. He was the institute's director from 1971 to 1977, when he retired. Gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen (Ordinary differential equations), Wolfenbütteler Verlagsanstalt, Wolfenbüttel und Hannover 1948 (146 pages). Differentialgleichungen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1966 (358 pages).