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Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) 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."
May 27, 2012 · Friedrich Hirzebruch was a German mathematician who made important contributions to topology. View one larger picture. Biography. Friedrich Hirzebruch was the son of Dr Fritz Hirzebruch and Martha Holtschmidt. Fritz Hirzebruch was the headmaster of a secondary school in Hamm, and he also taught mathematics there.
Full Professor of Mathematics, University of Bonn 1956-1993. Founding director, MPI for Mathematics 1980-1995. Honorary doctorates of 15 German and foreign Universities and Academies. Wolf Prize 1988. Lobachevskij Prize of the Academy of Sciences USSR 1990. Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1999.
Friedrich Hirzebruch (universally known as Fritz) died on May 27, 2012, at the age of eighty-four. He was the outstanding German mathematician of the postwar years who helped to restore mathematics in his country after the devastation of the Nazi era.
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May 27, 2015 · Friedrich Hirzebruch, who died in 2012 at the age of 84, was one of the most important German mathematicians of the twentieth century. In this article we try to give a fairly detailed picture of his life and of his many mathematical achievements, as well as of his role in reshaping German mathematics after the Second World War.
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Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927-2012) was the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, which he headed from 1980 to 1995. His work largely influenced the development of modern mathematics.
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Jun 11, 2012 · Friedrich Hirzebruch, who helped revive the German mathematical community after World War II and whose work in unifying disparate parts of mathematics gave birth to new tools and fields...
