Friedrich Hirzebruch
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 12 years ago |
Date of birth | October 17,1927 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Hamm |
Germany | |
Date of died | May 27,2012 |
Died | Bonn |
Germany | |
Residence | Germany |
Job | Mathematician |
Education | Princeton University |
Institute for Advanced Study | |
University of Münster | |
ETH Zürich | |
Books | Differentiable manifolds and quadratic forms |
Prospects in Mathematics | |
Lectures on Hilbert modular surfaces | |
The Atiyah-Singer Theorem and Elementary Number Theory | |
Einführung in die Funktionalanalysis | |
Manifolds and modular forms | |
Topological methods in algebraic geometry | |
Awards | Albert Einstein Medal |
Wolf Prize in Mathematics | |
Field | Mathematics |
Notable student | Don Zagier |
Egbert Brieskorn | |
Matthias Kreck | |
Klaus Jänich | |
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ID | 652896 |
Friedrich Hirzebruch Life story
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as "the most important mathematician in Germany of the postwar period."