Alan Trinler Huckleberry (born February 18, 1941) is an American

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, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

who works in

complex analysis Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathematics, including algebraic ...

Lie groups In mathematics, a Lie group (pronounced ) is a group that is also a differentiable manifold, such that group multiplication and taking inverses are both differentiable. A manifold is a space that locally resembles Euclidean space, whereas ...

actions and

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...

. He is the Professor of Mathematics at

Ruhr University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began ...

and Wisdom Professor of Mathematics at

Jacobs University Bremen Constructor University, formerly Jacobs University Bremen, is an international, private, residential research university located in Vegesack, Bremen, Germany. It offers study programs in engineering, humanities, natural and social sciences, in ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

Professional career

He received his B.S. from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

in 1963 and his Ph.D. from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 1969 working under

Halsey Royden Halsey Lawrence Royden, Jr. (September 26, 1928 – August 22, 1993) was an American mathematician, specializing in complex analysis on Riemann surfaces, several complex variables, and Differential geometry#Complex and Kähler geometry, complex d ...

. His Ph.D. thesis was titled: Holomorphic Mappings and

algebras In mathematics, an algebra over a field (often simply called an algebra) is a vector space equipped with a bilinear product. Thus, an algebra is an algebraic structure consisting of a set together with operations of multiplication and addition ...

holomorphic functions In mathematics, a holomorphic function is a complex-valued function of one or more complex variables that is complex differentiable in a neighbourhood of each point in a domain in complex coordinate space . The existence of a complex deriv ...

several complex variables The theory of functions of several complex variables is the branch of mathematics dealing with functions defined on the complex coordinate space \mathbb C^n, that is, -tuples of complex numbers. The name of the field dealing with the properties ...

. He has previously taught at

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

before joining

in 1980. Huckleberry has honorary doctor’s degrees from University of Lile (

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

) in 1997, and from

University of Nancy A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

(

) in 2002. In addition to

pure mathematics Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world concerns, and the results obtained may later turn out to be useful for practical applications ...

, he also works in applications of

symplectic geometry Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form. Symplectic geometry has its origins in the ...

quantum entanglement Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon where the quantum state of each Subatomic particle, particle in a group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, even when the particles are separated by a large distance. The topic o ...

and in other problems of

mathematical physics Mathematical physics is the development of mathematics, mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The ''Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the de ...

Writings

* with Bruce Gilligan, Fibrations and Globalizations of Compact Homogeneous CR-Manifolds, Izvestiya: Mathematics, 73:3,(2009) 501 - 553. *with Gregor Fels, Joseph A. Wolf ''Cycle spaces of flag domains: a complex geometric point of view'', Birkhäuser 2006 ** *as editor with Tilman Wurzbache
''Infinite dimensional Kähler Manifolds''
Birkhäuser 2001 (DMV Seminar Oberwolfach 1995) *as editor with

Fabrizio Catanese Fabrizio is an Italian first name, from the Latin word "Faber" meaning "smith" and may refer to: * Fabrizio Angileri (born 1994), Argentine footballer * Fabrizio Barbazza (born 1963), Italian Formula One driver * Fabrizio Barca (born 1954), Italian ...

Hélène Esnault Hélène Esnault (born 17 July 1953) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Career Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII. She wrote her dissertation on ''Singularites r ...

, Klaus Hulek, Thomas Peternell ''Global aspects of complex geometry'', Springer Verlag 2006 *''The classification of homogeneous surfaces'', Expositiones mathematicae 4 (1986), 289-334 *Actions of groups of holomorphic transformations, in: Several Complex Variables VI, Encyclopedia of Math. Sciences, Band.69, Springer-Verlag 1991, 143-196 *with Peternell, Artikel ''Several complex variables: basic geometric theory'' and ''Complex manifolds'' in Francoise, Naber, Tsun (Hrsg.), Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, Elsevier 2006

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Huckleberry, Alan Living people 20th-century American mathematicians American emigrants to West Germany Academic staff of Ruhr University Bochum 1941 births Stanford University faculty University of Notre Dame faculty Academic staff of Jacobs University Bremen 21st-century American mathematicians Yale University alumni