Life and work of Egbert Brieskorn (1936--2013)

DOI10.1365/S13291-016-0141-6zbMATH Open1352.01039arXiv1711.09600OpenAlexW2963358070WikidataQ56963808 ScholiaQ56963808MaRDI QIDQ335014FDOQ335014

Gert-Martin Greuel, Walter Purkert

Publication date: 2 November 2016

Published in: Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV), Journal of Singularitiesl (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Egbert Brieskorn died on July 11, 2013, a few days after his 77th birthday. He was an impressive personality who has left a lasting impression on all who knew him, whether inside or outside of mathematics. Brieskorn was a great mathematician, but his interests, his knowledge, and activities ranged far beyond mathematics. In this contribution, which is strongly influenced by many years of personal connectedness of the authors with Brieskorn, we try to give a deeper insight into the life and work of Brieskorn. We illuminate both his personal commitment to peace and the environment as well as his long-term study of the life and work of Felix Hausdorff and the publication of Hausdorff's collected works. However, the main focus of the article is on the presentation of his remarkable and influential mathematical work.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09600

zbMATH Keywords

biography and edition of Felix Hausdorff's workssingularities of complex hypersurfacestopological methods in algebraic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) History of algebraic geometry (14-03)

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Cited In (5)

• BRET TILSON: HIS LIFE AND WORK
• Book review of: E. Brieskorn and W. Purkert, Biographie. Felix Hausdorff, Gesammelte Werke. Band IB
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• Life and work of Egbert Brieskorn (1936--2013)
• The life and work of Olof Thorin (1912–2004)

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