Wolfgang Döblin (1915) -- Vincent Doblin (1940)
Harrie Willems visited and presented the movie he co-authored
with Agnes Handwerk entitled: "Wolfgang Doeblin - a mathematician rediscovered"
at Georgia Tech
in the Clary Theater of the Bill Moore Student Success Center.
The documentary tells the story of the mathematician Wolfgang Döblin and his famous
manuscript "On Kolmogorov's equation", which
laid dormant for 60 years and finally opened
in May 2000.
Here is a poster of the presentation,
and a few links on this fascinating story.
- A short document by Harrie Willems on the life of
Wolfgang Döblin.
- A longer document by Bernard Bru and Marc Yor on the life and work
of Wolfgang Döblin.
-
An entire Special Issue
of the Comptes Rendus dedicated to the Pli Cacheté.
Access is restricted to GaTech Library patrons.
- There is also another good article by
Bernard Bru and Marc Yor which was published in
Finance and Stochastics:
Comments on the life and mathematical legacy of Wolfgang Doeblin.
Finance Stoch. 6 (2002), no. 1, 3--47.
Here is
the GaTech Library link to the paper.
- The site
of the joint meeting of the Berlin and Paris Academy of Sciences
dedicated to Döblin.
- Various documents co-authored by L. Mazliak available in The Electronic Journal for the History of Probability and Statistics.
- A movie shown on ARTE on
Döblin's life with a short description of it.
- A short article, in French, based on
the book Léquation de Kolmogoroff: Vie et mort de Wolfgang Doeblin, un génie dans la
tourmente nazie (Ramsay, 2003). This book, authored by the novelist and germanist Marc Petit,
explores
Wolfgang Döblin's life, and in particular,
his relationship with his famous father Alfred Döblin.
-
The random walk of
the private Doblin, a radio broadcast (in French). Scrolling down this page
leads to articles, books, CDs and links (in English, French and German)
related to
Wolfgang and Alfred Döblin. The radio program
can be downloaded
here.
- A radio program (also in French) of a very recent conference given by
Marc Yor at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. It can be downloaded
here.