Bertram Huppert
Bertram Huppert (born October 22, 1927 in Worms ) is a German mathematician . His main area of work is group theory , especially representation theory .
Life
Bertram Huppert went to school in Bonn from 1934 to 1945. In 1950 he received the diploma in mathematics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a thesis on "Non-continuable power series", which he had written under the direction of Helmut Wielandt .
When Wielandt moved to the University of Tübingen in April 1951 , Huppert followed him in the fall and received his doctorate in 1953 as Wielandt's first doctoral student with the thesis "Products of cyclic groups that can be exchanged in pairs". a. showed that such groups are dissolvable . This was the first of more than 40 other scientific papers, apart from his books and monographs. The topic of the dissertation was very close to Wielandt's interest at the time, who in 1951 published the first work on today's Kegel-Wielandt theorem: The product of nilpotent groups that can be exchanged in pairs is resolvable.
In 1963/64 he spent a year as visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) in Pasadena . In January 1965 he became professor for pure mathematics in Mainz, where he worked until his retirement in 1994. He made outstanding contributions to building up group theory and algebra research and training in Mainz.
On the basis of a commission given to him, he wrote “Finite Groups I”, a monumental standard work on the theory of finite groups . Volumes II and III did not appear until 14 years later, in English instead of in German with co-author Norman Blackburn . The Kiel group around Wolfgang Gaschütz had made important contributions to discussions on the first volume .
In 1984, together with Gerhard Michler , Huppert founded the first DFG focus in mathematics at the four German universities of Aachen, Bielefeld, Essen and Mainz .
From 1964 to 1985 Huppert was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Algebra. With Wolfgang Gaschütz and Karl Gruenberg he organized the Oberwolfach conference “Group Theory” for many years and the Oberwolfach conference “Representation Theory” with Jonathan L. Alperin and Gerhard O. Michler .
He was on the founding advisory board of the "Institute for Experimental Mathematics" at the University of Essen and is a member of the Academy of Non-Profit Sciences in Erfurt .
Books
- Finite Groups (Springer, 1967) ISBN 978-3540038252
- Finite Groups II, III (with N. Blackburn, Springer, 1981/82) ISBN 978-0387106328 and ISBN 978-3540106333
- Stochastic matrices (with FJ Fritz, W. Willems, Springer, 1979) ISBN 978-3540091264
- Applied Linear Algebra (de Gruyter, 1990), ISBN 978-3110121070
- Character Theory of Finite Groups (de Gruyter, 1998), ISBN 978-3110154214
- Linear Algebra (with Wolfgang Willems) (Teubner, 2006), ISBN 978-3835100893
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- Wolfgang Willems: Laudation held on June 19, 1998 in Mainz at a celebratory colloquium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Dr. Bertram Huppert. (Postscript file)
Web links
- Literature by and about Bertram Huppert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Photos by Bertram Huppert in the Oberwolfach Photo Collection
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huppert, Bertram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Worms |