Paul Finsler (Heilbronn, April 11, 1894 - Zurich, April 29, 1970) was a German-Swiss mathematician.
Finsler did his doctoral studies at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. He graduated in 1919 under the supervision of Constantin Caratheodory at the University of Göttingen. He received his habilitation in 1922 at the University of Cologne. In 1927 he was appointed to the mathematical faculty of the University of Zurich. In 1944 he was appointed professor.
Finslers thesis was about differential geometry.
Paul Finsler is best known by the fact that Élie Cartan named him the Finsler variety in 1934. External source
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