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help, giving preference to young scientists over elderly aunts; two of Alt’s aunts
died in concentration camps. It is poignant to read, in Franz Alt’s reminiscences,
that on his first return to Vienna, in 1958, he felt familiar only in the Zentralfriedhof,
Vienna’s central cemetery. But his upbringing had indelibly stamped him as
the epitome of what cultured Viennese would like to be. His melodious German
reminded one of Hofmannsthal and Schnitzler, his literary and artistic interests
were wide-ranging, and his two major hobbies were hiking and music (he played
violin and viola in several chamber music groups, well into his nineties). Gradually,
the rift that had been caused by the Anschluss narrowed. Franz Alt greatly
appreciated his invitations to the Berlin ICM in 1998, by the German Mathematical
Association, and to the Congress of Austrian Mathematicians in 2001. His
former school, the Stubenbastei Gymnasium, named a prize after him. In 2007,
Franz Alt received, from the hands of Austria’s chancellor Gusenbauer, the Ehrenkreuz
für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse, the highest distinction for science
and art in Austria.
List of Publications by Franz L. Alt
(a) Pure Mathematics
[1] Zum Krümmungsbegriff (with O. Haupt). Ergebnisse eines Math. Koll. 3, 1930/31.
[2] Zur Theorie der Krümmung. Ergebnisse eines Math. Koll. 3, 1930/31.
[3] Zur Theorie der Krümmung. Ergebnisse eines Math. Koll. 4, 1931/32.
[4] Der n-Gittersatz in Bogen (with G. Beer). Ergebnisse eines Math. Koll. 6, 1933/34.
[5] Axiomatik der affinen Verknüpfungsbeziehungen. Ergebnisse eines Math. Koll. 7,
1934/35.
[6] Dreiecksungleichung und Eichkörper in verallgemeinerten Minkowski’schen Räumen.
Ergebnisse eines Math. Koll. 8, 1935/36.
[7] Ein Streckenbild für welches γφ nicht existiert obwohl φ stetig, beschränkt und quasi-regulär
ist. Ergebnisse eines Math. Koll. 8, 1935/36.
[8] New Foundations of Projective and Affine Geometry (with K. Menger and
O. Schreiber). Annals of Math. 37/2, Apr. 1936.
[9] Note on a Previous Paper “New Foundations . . . ” (with K. Menger). Annals of
Math. 38/2, Apr. 1937.
(b) Applied Mathematics
[10] Eine Ausgleichung der AH M G
Selekt-Tafeln. Versicherungsarchiv 7/10, Apr. 1937.
[11] Distributed Lags. Econometrica 10/2, Apr. 1942.
[12] Multiplication of Matrices. Math. Tables & Aids to Comp. II/13, Jän. 1946.
[13] Steady State Solutions of the Equation of Burning. Ballistic Research Lab. Report
No. 682, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., Nov. 1948.
(c) Mathematical Economics
[14] Industrielle Standortfragen. Zeitschrift für Nat. Ökonomie VI/1, 1935.
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