Oskar Bolza

Oskar Bolza
Oskar Bolza (1857-1942)
Born(1857-05-12)12 May 1857
Bad Bergzabern, Palatinate
Died5 July 1942(1942-07-05) (aged 85)
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Gottingen
University of Berlin
Known forThe Bolza problem
Bolza surface
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Clark University
ThesisÜber die Reduction hyperelliptischer Integrale erster Ordnung und erster Gattung auf elliptische, insbesondere über die Reduction durch eine Transformation vierten Grades (1886)
Doctoral advisor
Felix Klein
Doctoral students
Other notable students
Anne Bosworth

Oskar Bolza (12 May 1857 – 5 July 1942) was a German mathematician, and student of Felix Klein. He was born in Bad Bergzabern, Palatinate, then a district of Bavaria, known for his research in the calculus of variations, particularly influenced by Karl Weierstrass' 1879 lectures on the subject.

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