Schrodinger scientist biography report

View fifteen larger pictures. Erwin's mother, Emily Bauer, was half English, this side of the family coming from Leamington Spa, and half Austrian with her father coming from Vienna. He was not sent to elementary school, but received lessons at home from a private tutor up to the age of ten.

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He then entered the Akademisches Gymnasium in the autumn of , rather later than was usual since he spent a long holiday in England around the time he might have entered the school. He wrote later about his time at the Gymnasium:- I was a good student in all subjects, loved mathematics and physics, but also the strict logic of the ancient grammars, hated only memorising incidental dates and facts.

Of the German poets, I loved especially the dramatists, but hated the pedantic dissection of their works. After the lecture In theoretical physics he studied analytical mechanics, applications of partial differential equations to dynamics, eigenvalue problems, Maxwell 's equations and electromagnetic theory, optics, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics.

In mathematics he was taught calculus and algebra by Franz Mertens , function theory, differential equations and mathematical statistics by Wilhelm Wirtinger whom he found uninspiring as a lecturer. He also studied projective geometry , algebraic curves and continuous groups in lectures given by Gustav Kohn. After this he undertook voluntary military service in the fortress artillery.