Werner Müller (born 7 September 1949) is a German mathematician. His research focuses on

global analysis In mathematics, global analysis, also called analysis on manifolds, is the study of the global and topological properties of differential equations on manifolds and vector bundles. Global analysis uses techniques in infinite-dimensional manifold ...

and

automorphic forms In harmonic analysis and number theory, an automorphic form is a well-behaved function from a topological group ''G'' to the complex numbers (or complex vector space) which is invariant under the group action (mathematics), action of a discrete s ...

Biography

Werner Müller grew up in the

German Democratic Republic East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

(East Germany). He studied mathematics at the

Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

in East Berlin. In 1977 he completed his PhD under the supervision of Herbert Kurke. In his thesis, ''Analytische Torsion Riemannscher Mannigfaltigkeiten,'' he solved, at the same time as but independently of

Jeff Cheeger Jeff Cheeger (born December 1, 1943) is an American mathematician and Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. His main interest is differential geometry and its connections with topology and an ...

, the Ray–Singer conjecture on the equality between

analytic torsion In mathematics, Reidemeister torsion (or R-torsion, or Reidemeister–Franz torsion) is a topological invariant of manifolds introduced by Kurt Reidemeister for 3-manifolds and generalized to higher dimensions by and . Analytic torsion (or Ray– ...

and Reidemeister torsion. Thereafter he moved to the Karl-Weierstraß-Institut für Mathematik of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. After the reunion of Germany he spent some time at the

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (, MPIM) is a research institute located in Bonn, Germany. It is named in honor of the German physicist Max Planck and forms part of the Max Planck Society (''Max-Planck-Gesellschaft''), an association o ...

in Bonn. Since 1994 he is Professor at the Mathematics Institute of the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. He is the successor on the chair of

Friedrich Hirzebruch Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as ...

. He has supervised 12 doctoral students, including

Maryna Viazovska Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska (, ; born 2 December 1984) is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is a full professor and Chair of Number Theory Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to ...

. Together with

, he has been awarded the Max-Planck-Forschungspreis in 1991 . The Cheeger–Müller theorem on the

Riemannian manifolds In differential geometry, a Riemannian manifold is a geometric space on which many geometric notions such as distance, angles, length, volume, and curvature are defined. Euclidean space, the n-sphere, hyperbolic space, and smooth surfaces in ...

is named after them.Maxim Braverman
New Proof of the Cheeger–Müller Theorem
Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, vol. 23 (2003), no. 1, pp. 77-92

Important Papers

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References

External links

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in Bonn

��Conference in honor of his 60. birthday at the

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