Ulrich Pinkall (born 1955) is a German mathematician, specializing in differential geometry and computer graphics.
Pinkall studied mathematics at the
University of Freiburg
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with a
Diplom
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in 1979 and a doctorate in 1982 with thesis ''Dupin'sche Hyperflächen'' (
Dupin's hypersurfaces)
under the supervision of
Martin Barner. Pinkall was then a research assistant in Freiburg until 1984 and from 1984 to 1986 at the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
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in Bonn. In 1985 he completed his habilitation in Bonn with thesis ''Totale Absolutkrümmung immersierter Flächen'' (Total absolute curvature of immersed surfaces). Since 1986 he is professor at
TU Berlin
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In 1985 he received the Otto Hahn Medal of the ]Max Planck Society
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. In 1986 he received a ''Heisenberg-Stipendium'' from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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(DFG). From 1992 to 2003 he was a speaker of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 288 (differential geometry and quantum physics).
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Quaternionic analysis of Riemann surface
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s and differential geometry'' at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...
in Berlin.
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1955 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
Differential geometers
University of Freiburg alumni
Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin