Heiner Zieschang (12 November 1936 in

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...

– 5 April 2004 in Bochum) was a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

. He was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum from 1968 till 2002. He was a

topologist In mathematics, topology (from the Greek words , and ) is concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing h ...

. In 1996 he was an honorary doctor of

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and in 1997 he was an honorary professor of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

Literature

* Heiner Zieschang: ''Flächen und ebene diskontinuierliche Gruppen.'' Berlin 1970, * Heiner Zieschang: ''On decompositions of discontinuous groups of the plane.'' Math. Zeit. 151 (1976), 165-188 * Heiner Zieschang; Elmar Vogt; Hans-Dieter Coldewey: ''Surfaces and planar discontinuous groups'', Berlin 1980 * Heiner Zieschang: ''Finite groups of mapping classes of surfaces.'' Berlin 1981, * Gerhard Burde; Heiner Zieschang: ''Knots'', Berlin .a.1985 ; * Ralph Stöcker; Heiner Zischang: ''Algebraische Topologie.'' Teubner, Stuttgart 1988, * Heiner Zieschang: ''Lineare Algebra und Geometrie.'' Stuttgart 1997, * Boto v. Querenburg: Mengentheoretische Topologie. 3. Auflage. Springer, Berlin 2001,

References

External links

Ruhr-Universität trauert um Prof. Heiner Zieschang

Heiner Zieschang – his life and work

Zieschang Gedenkschrift, G&T Monograph dedicated to Heiner Zieschang
* 1936 births 2004 deaths 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians Scientists from Kiel Topologists {{Germany-mathematician-stub