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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...
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  • mathematics, the Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theorem, named after Friedrich Hirzebruch, Bernhard Riemann, and Gustav Roch, is Hirzebruch's 1954 result generalizing...
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  • mathematics, a Hirzebruch surface is a ruled surface over the projective line. They were studied by Friedrich Hirzebruch (1951). The Hirzebruch surface Σ n...
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    as Karl Weierstrass, Felix Klein, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Felix Hausdorff; Major philosophers, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and Jürgen Habermas;...
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    institute specializing in pure mathematics. The Institute was founded by Friedrich Hirzebruch in 1980, having emerged from the collaborative research center "Theoretical...
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  • Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence is a spectral sequence for calculating generalized cohomology, introduced by Michael Atiyah and Friedrich Hirzebruch (1961)...
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    then wrote a doctoral dissertation on characteristic classes under Friedrich Hirzebruch at Bonn, receiving his PhD at 20. He received his Habilitation at...
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  • early work on topological K-theory is due to Michael Atiyah and Friedrich Hirzebruch. Let X be a compact Hausdorff space and k = R {\displaystyle k=\mathbb...
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  • Arbeitstagung taking place annually in Bonn since 1957, and founded by Friedrich Hirzebruch, was an international meeting of mathematicians intended to act in...
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  • Todd-Eger class. The general definition in higher dimensions is due to Friedrich Hirzebruch. To define the Todd class td ⁡ ( E ) {\displaystyle \operatorname...
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    founded on 28 October 1990 in Mądralin near Warsaw, Poland, with Friedrich Hirzebruch as founding President. Initially, the EMS had 27 member societies...
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    Pontrjagin classes p i = p i ( M ) {\displaystyle p_{i}=p_{i}(M)} . Friedrich Hirzebruch showed that the L genus of M in dimension 4n evaluated on the fundamental...
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  • theorem and its generalization the Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theorem, and the Hirzebruch signature theorem. Friedrich Hirzebruch and Armand Borel had proved the...
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    Foundation. Atiyah's mathematical collaborators included Raoul Bott, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Isadore Singer, and his students included Graeme Segal, Nigel...
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  • Heinz 1996 Jacques Tits 1999 Volker Strassen 2002 Yuri Manin 2004 Friedrich Hirzebruch 2006 Hans Föllmer 2008 Hans Grauert 2010 Matthias Kreck 2012 Michael...
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    Obergruppenführer, a Gauleiter, executed for war crimes Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927–2012), German mathematician Friedrich von Ingenohl (1857–1933), German admiral from...
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  • area of mathematics, the Hirzebruch signature theorem (sometimes called the Hirzebruch index theorem) is Friedrich Hirzebruch's 1954 result expressing the...
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    a full professor at the University of Bonn. Fintzen won the 2018 Friedrich Hirzebruch Dissertation prize of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation...
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    available. This work was particularly influential, for example on Friedrich Hirzebruch. In a second research phase, Kodaira wrote a long series of papers...
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    Pierre Gabriel Israel Gelfand Alexander Grothendieck Allen Hatcher Friedrich Hirzebruch Heinz Hopf Michael J. Hopkins Witold Hurewicz Egbert van Kampen Daniel...
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  • (2012). "Ch. 5 What is π?". In Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus; Hans Hermes; Friedrich Hirzebruch; Max Koecher; Klaus Mainzer; Jürgen Neukirch; Alexander Prestel;...
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  • superabundant if s > 0. Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry by Friedrich Hirzebruch ISBN 3-540-58663-6 Zariski, Oscar (1995), Algebraic surfaces, Classics...
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    University. Neumann obtained his Ph.D. under the joint supervision of Friedrich Hirzebruch and Klaus Jänich at the University of Bonn in 1969. He was a son...
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  • 1959: Willi Rinow 1960: Wilhelm Maak 1961: Ott-Heinrich Keller 1962: Friedrich Hirzebruch 1963: Wolfgang Haack 1964–1965: Heinrich Behnke 1966: Karl Stein...
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  • only other parallelizable sphere is S7; this was proved in 1958, by Friedrich Hirzebruch, Michel Kervaire, and by Raoul Bott and John Milnor, in independent...
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  • Maximilian Herzberger Edmund Hess Karl Hessenberg David Hilbert Friedrich Hirzebruch Eberhard Hopf Heinz Hopf Jakob Horn Günter Hotz Annette Huber-Klawitter...
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  • Smoot 2001: Johannes Geiss, Hubert Reeves 2000: Gustav Tammann 1999: Friedrich Hirzebruch 1998: Claude Nicollier 1996: Thibault Damour 1995: Chen Ning Yang...
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    participants to the first Arbeitstagung, an informal seminar animated by Friedrich Hirzebruch, which later became very popular among mathematicians; he saw at...
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    Arbeitstagung, topological K-theory was founded by Michael Atiyah and Friedrich Hirzebruch. Grothendieck's construction of new cohomology theories, which use...
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  • applying the same construction to vector bundles, Michael Atiyah and Friedrich Hirzebruch defined K(X) for a topological space X in 1959, and using the Bott...
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