Dieter Happel
Dieter Happel (born April 22, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 15, 2012 ) was a German mathematician and university professor.
Life
Happel studied mathematics and physics at the University of Bonn from 1973 to 1978 . In 1979 he did his doctorate at the Faculty of Mathematics at Bielefeld University under Claus Michael Ringel with the dissertation The representation theory of quivers of finite and tame type. Relative invariants and subgeneric orbites . From 1981 to 1982, Happel was Visiting Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in Waltham , Massachusetts . From 1983 to 1989 he was a university assistant at the Faculty of Mathematics at Bielefeld University. In 1985 he received his habilitation . From 1989 to 1992 he was a Heisenberg fellow . After substitute professorships in Bielefeld and Trondheim , Norway , he became professor for algebra at the Technical University of Chemnitz in 1993 . From 2000 to 2006 Happel was the university's prorector . From 2009 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics.
His focus was on non-commutative algebra, in particular the representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras. Special research topics were the tilt theory, homological methods and the normal form problem of matrices.
In 2012 he became a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences .
Web links
- Mourning the loss of committed university professors and recognized mathematicians , August 16, 2012, Chemnitz University of Technology
- Entry in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Prof. Dr. Dieter Happel , website of the Faculty of Mathematics at Chemnitz University of Technology
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Happel, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 2012 |