Friedrich Hirzebruch
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 13 years ago |
| Date of birth | October 17,1927 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Hamm |
| Germany | |
| Date of died | May 27,2012 |
| Died | Bonn |
| Germany | |
| Residence | Germany |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Institute for Advanced Study | |
| University of Münster | |
| ETH Zürich | |
| Books | Differentiable manifolds and quadratic forms |
| Prospects in Mathematics | |
| Lectures on Hilbert modular surfaces | |
| The Atiyah-Singer Theorem and Elementary Number Theory | |
| Einführung in die Funktionalanalysis | |
| Manifolds and modular forms | |
| Topological methods in algebraic geometry | |
| Awards | Albert Einstein Medal |
| Wolf Prize in Mathematics | |
| Field | Mathematics |
| Notable student | Don Zagier |
| Egbert Brieskorn | |
| Matthias Kreck | |
| Klaus Jänich | |
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| ID | 652896 |
Friedrich Hirzebruch Life story
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS 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 "the most important mathematician in Germany of the postwar period."