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| Oct 28, 2018 at 6:46 | comment | added | Lennart Meier | While it is true that Heegner did his PhD on radio engineering (after studying math and physics in Berlin) and also continued working in this direction, he already started publishing in math in 1929. Beginning with 1932, he could live from money coming in from his patents and, as I understand it, devoted his time mainly to math, and got in 1939 his habilitation. 1947-1950 he also worked for Zentralblatt (after he spoke with Schmidt and Hasse about his work on the class number one problem). [All information from the German wikipedia] So it seems like a peculiar borderline case of an amateur... | |
| S Oct 28, 2018 at 3:39 | history | answered | Robin Zhang | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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