Andreas Dress (mathematician)

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Andreas Dress 1976

Andreas Dress (born August 26, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German mathematician who deals with geometry , combinatorics and the applications of mathematics in biology .

Life

Andreas Dress' mother was Susanne Dress , b. Bonhoeffer, youngest sister of the well-known theologian and resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer . Andreas Dress studied mathematics at the Free University of Berlin , at the University of Tübingen and at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel from 1956 to 1961 and received his doctorate in 1962 in Kiel under Friedrich Bachmann ( construction of metric planes ). In 1965 he completed his habilitation in Kiel, was then a scientific advisor at the Free University of Berlin and from 1969 was a professor at the then newly founded University of Bielefeld . From 1967 to 1969 and 1974 to 1975 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . After he retired in Bielefeld in 2003 , he was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Natural Sciences in Leipzig , of which he is still an external scientific member. In 2005 he was founding director of the Partner Institute for Computational Biology of the Max Planck Society and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai . In 2012, Dress was honored with the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award , the highest Chinese award for international scientific cooperation , and the Friendship Prize of the People's Republic of China for his scientific achievements in connection with this structure . Dress was u. a. Visiting researcher at IBM in Heidelberg , at Queen Mary College in London, at City College in New York , the University of Kyoto , the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla , the Chengdu Laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand) .

Dress dealt u. a. with periodic paving in the plane and in space (among others with his collaborators Olaf Delgado-Friedrichs, Daniel Huson). For example, he was able to mathematically characterize the paving stones that lead to periodic paving in two dimensions. To classify the tiling, he introduced Delaney dress symbols in the 1980s. With Delgado and Huson, he determined the paving of the room with symmetrical paving blocks (Platonic solids). This work also has applications in crystallography and chemistry. Delgado and Huson also developed computer programs for the construction and enumeration of the tilings (not only in the Euclidean plane, but also on the sphere, the hyperbolic plane). His later research focus was on mathematical models for various biological processes, e.g. B. in phylogenetics (trees of descent based on metrics in sequence spaces), evolutionary processes at the molecular level, interaction of proteins in the cell.

In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ( The tree of life and other affine buildings with Werner Terhalle). On the German Conference on Bioinformatics 2013 in Göttingen he was a keynote speaker (keynote speaker) .

Fonts

  • Presentations of discrete groups, acting on simply connected manifolds. Advances in Mathematics, Vol. 63, 1987, pp. 196-212 (Dress-Delgado symbols).
  • with Huson: On tilings of the plane. Geometriae Dedicata, Vol. 24, 1987, pp. 269-296.
  • Induction and structure theorems for orthogonal representations of finite groups. Ann. of Math. (2) 102 (1975), No. 2, pp. 291-325.
  • Newman's theorems on transformation groups. Topology 8, 1969, pp. 203-207.
  • On the spectral sequence of fibers. Invent. Math. 3, 1967, pp. 172-178.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Dress in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ After Dress and Matthew Delaney (1980). Also called the Delaney symbol.
  3. ↑ Tiling space by platonic solids , Part 1, Discrete and computational geometry, Vol. 21, 1999, p. 291.
  4. ^ German Conference on Bioinformatics 2013
personal data
SURNAME Dress, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin