HELMUT WIELANDT
1910 - 2001


1980 1960

  1. Helmut Wielandts Antrittsrede (Inaugural address), Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. - Jahresheft 1961/62, S. 55-57
  2. Preface to Volume 2 of Helmut Wielandt's Mathematical Works.
  3. Helmut Wielandt: 19 December 1910 - 14 February 2001, A personal memoir, LAA 353 (2002), 1 - 3.
  4. Wielandt's hitherto unpublished proof of the exponent inequality for primitive matrices . Contains Carl de Boors transcription of the proof, a facsimile of a page of Wielandt's mathematical diaries, followed by a translation and a commentary, LAA 353 (2002), 5 - 10.
  5. Anpassen oder nicht? Die Geschichte eines Mathematikers im Deutschland der Jahre 1933 - 1950.
    (Conform or not conform? The history of a mathematician in the Germany of the years 1933 - 1950), joint with Volker Mehrmann, DMV Mitteilungen, 2/2002, 20-26.
    See quick view for a version of this paper without facsimiles of documents.
  6. Potter, Wielandt, and Drazin on the matrix equation $AB = \omega BA$, with some new answers to old questions, with O.Holtz and V. Mehrmann (#152 -ps file) Amer. Math. Month. 111 (2004), 655 - 667. For the preprint version containing a a bit more information, click preprint.
  7. A letter from Schur to Wielandt on MM' = M'M, the facsimile and an English translation .
  8. Contrasting views of mathematics: Helmut Wielandt and Jean Diedonne', 1960. An after dinner talk I gave at the ILAS meeting in Auburn in June 2004. Some further explanations will be added eventually.

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Updated 18 June 2005