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Heinz Gumin Prize
The Heinz Gumin Prize for Mathematics is awarded every three to four years to an outstanding mathematician in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The prize is given by the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, and is named after the mathematician and computer scientist Heinz Gumin (1928–2008), who was chairman of the Board of that foundation for more than 20 years. At 50,000 euros, the Gumin Prize is the most highly endowed mathematics prize in Germany. Award winners * 2010 Gerd Faltings, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn. For his groundbreaking methods and results in arithmetic geometry, which have had a lasting impact on the areas of number theory and geometry. * 2013 Stefan Müller, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bonn and at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn. For his groundbreaking contributions to the calculus of variations and elliptic regularity theory, often motivated by innovative applications in solid mechanics * 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings (; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. Education From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. Interrupted by 15 months of obligatory military service, he received his PhD in mathematics in 1978. Career and research In 1981 he obtained the ''venia legendi'' (Habilitation) in mathematics, from the University of Münster. During this time he was an assistant professor at the University of Münster. From 1982 to 1984, he was professor at the University of Wuppertal. From 1985 to 1994, he was professor at Princeton University. In the fall of 1988 and in the academic year 1992–1993 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1986 he was awarded the Fields Medal at the ICM at Berkeley for proving the Tate conjecture for abelian varieties over number fields, the Shafarevich conjecture for abelian varieties over number fields and the Mordell conjec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Müller (mathematician)
Stefan Müller (born 15 March 1962 in Wuppertal) is a German mathematician and currently a professor at the University of Bonn. He has been one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in 1996 and was acting there until 2008. He is well known for his research in analysis and the calculus of variations. He is interested in the application of mathematical methods in the theory continuum mechanics, especially material science and problems involving microstructures. Awards * 1992 - EMS Prize * 1993 – Max-Planck-Forschungspreis, together Vladimir Sverák (Charles University in Prague) * 1998 — Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin * 1999 – CICIAM Collatz Prize ICIAM Edinburgh * 2000 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize * 2006 – Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Gauss Lectureship of the German Mathematical Society. * 2013 Heinz Gumin Prize The Heinz Gumin Prize for Mathematics i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the Fields Medal "for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal field theory". He is currently Rouse Ball professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Biography Werner was born on 23 September 1968 in Cologne, West Germany. His parents moved to France when he was nine months old and he became a French citizen in 1977. After a '' classe préparatoire'' at Lycée Hoche in Versailles, he studied at École Normale Supérieure from 1987 to 1991. His 1993 doctorate was written at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and supervised by Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Hackbusch
Wolfgang Hackbusch (born 24 October 1948 in Westerstede, Lower Saxony) is a German mathematician, known for his pioneering research in multigrid methods and later hierarchical matrices, a concept generalizing the fast multipole method. He was a professor at the University of Kiel and is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. Awards and honors * 1994 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize * 1996 Brouwer Medal * 1998 Plenary Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians * 2020 Gumin Prize for Mathematics Publications * Multi-grid methods and applications, 1985, Springer Berlin, 2013 pbk reprint* Elliptic Differential Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment, 1992, Springer Berlin, * Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations, 1993, Springer Berlin, Integral Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment 1995, Birkhäuser, * Hierarchische Matrizen: Algorithmen und Analysis, 2009, Springer Berlin, * Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Zagier
Don Bernard Zagier (born 29 June 1951) is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the ''Collège de France'' in Paris from 2006 to 2014. Since October 2014, he is also a Distinguished Staff Associate at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP). Among his doctoral students are Fields medalists Maxim Kontsevich and Maryna Viazovska. Background Zagier was born in Heidelberg, West Germany. His mother was a psychiatrist, and his father was the dean of instruction at the American College of Switzerland. His father held five different citizenships, and he spent his youth living in many different countries. After finishing high school (at age 13) and attending Winchester College for a year, he studied for three years at MIT, completing his bachelor's and master's degrees and being named a Putnam Fellow in 1967 at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
