R.i.P., F. Hirzebruch

R.i.P., F. Hirzebruch

[Fred E.J. Linton]

This may be less than current, but it was news to me when I saw it in a
recent I.M.U. mailing, and it may be of interest to others here as well.

: PASSING AWAY OF Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927 - 2012)
: 
: The first president of the European Mathematical Society, Friedrich
: Hirzebruch, has passed away. Fritz Hirzebruch studied mathematics at
: Münster. In 1956 he became professor at Bonn where he remained until
: his retirement. In 1980 he founded the Max-Planck-Institut fur
: Mathematik, serving as Director until 1995. His profound contributions
: to mathematics – in applications of topology to algebraic manifolds
: and number theory – and to German mathematical life, were honoured by
: many prizes, including that of the Wolf foundation in 1988 and the
: Georg Cantor medal of the DMV in 2004. He was honorary president of
: the 1998 International Congress of Mathematics in Berlin.
: He was a member of the IMU Executive Committee during the period 1963-66.
: European mathematics has lost a great scholar and the EMS has lost one
: of its architects.
: 
: Detailed biographies:
: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Hirzebruch.html
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hirzebruch

Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012)

-- Fred



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