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Friedrich Hirzebruch. Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS [1] (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."
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May 27, 2012 · 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. When he was at school, Friedrich enjoyed mathematics and learnt more advanced topics by talking to his father and reading his father's mathematics books.
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch was born on Oct. 17, 1927, in Hamm, Westphalia. His father, Fritz, a mathematician, was his first math teacher. He was drafted into the Luftwaffe youth corps when ...
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the Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch Theorem. Those years and also the early years in Bonn, when the core of Fritz’s research was still in topology and its applications to algebraic geometry, will be discussed in detail in the contribution by Michael Atiyah. Friedrich Hirzebruch ca. 1985 in Bonn. This period also in-cluded three major events in Fritz ...
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May 27, 2015 · Friedrich Hirzebruch, who passed away on May 27, 2012, at the age of 84, was the outstanding German mathematician of the second half of the twentieth century, not only because of his beautiful and influential discoveries within mathematics itself, but also, and perhaps even more importantly, for his role in reshaping German mathematics and restoring the country’s image after the devastations ...
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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. Through his personal efforts and achievements he contributed in an essential way to the reconstruction of mathematics research in Germany ...
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."
