Bernhard Banaschewski
Bernhard Banaschewski (born March 22, 1926 in Munich ) is a German-Canadian mathematician .
Life
Banaschewski is the son of Anne Banaschewski, who has a doctorate in art history, and grew up in Hamburg , where he experienced the bombing in 1943 and served as a flak helper . From 1945 to 1947 he was a prisoner of war. He received his doctorate in 1953 at the University of Hamburg under Ernst Witt (investigations into filter rooms). From 1955 he was at McMaster University , where he became McKay Professor of Mathematics in 1964, headed the Mathematics Faculty from 1961 to 1967 and 1982 to 1987 and retired in 1991.
He deals with topology, the theory of orders, category theory, algebra and their application in mathematical logic.
In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cape Town . He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1962 .
Fonts
- with R.-E. Hoffman (Editor): Continuous Lattices, Springer 1981 (Workshop Bremen 1979)
- Editor: Categorical aspects of topology and analysis, Springer 1982
- with Evelyn Nelson: Boolean powers as algebras of continuous functions, Dissertationes mathematicae, Warsaw 1980
literature
- Guillaume Brümmer, Christopher Gilmour (Ed.): Papers in Honor of Bernhard Banaschewski. Proceedings of the BB Fest 96, a Conference Held at the University of Cape Town, July 15-20, 1996, on Category Theory and its Applications to Topology, Order and Algebra, Springer 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Banaschewski in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Banaschewski, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |