Emil Hilb

Emil Hilb (1882 to 1929) was a German-Jewish mathematician who worked on special functions, differential equations and difference equations. Born in Stuttgart, he obtained his doctorate in 1903 under the supervision of Ferdinand von Lindemann and wrote a book on Lame functions. He taught mathematics at a high school in Augsburg until 1906, when Max Noether hired him as an assistant at Erlangen, became a lecturer there in 1908, and in 1909 won a professorship at the University of Wuerzburg in preference over Ernst Zermelo. He contributed articles on trigonometric series and on differential equations to the Enzyklopaedie der mathematischen Wissenschaften. His students at Wuerzburg included the experimental physicist Richard Baer, Otto Haupt and Axel Schur. He died in Wuerzburg in August 1929.