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Friedrich Hirzebruch

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Gender Male
Death11 years ago
Date of birth October 17,1927
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Hamm
Germany
Date of died May 27,2012
DiedBonn
Germany
ResidenceGermany
Job Mathematician
Education Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Münster
ETH Zürich
BooksDifferentiable 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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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."

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