Dieter doll

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Siegmund Dieter Doll (born December 16, 1930 in Łódź ; † August 13, 2005 ) was a German mathematician who dealt with algebraic topology, differential geometry and homological algebra.

Dieter Doll (center) with John Frank Adams in Aarhus in 1962

Life

Dieter Doll was born as the son of the lawyer Siegmund Doll. The mathematician Volkeruppe (* 1938) and the legal scholar Ingeborguppe (* 1941) were his siblings. From 1948 he studied physics and mathematics in Göttingen (among others with Franz Rellich ) and from 1951 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1954 he received his doctorate under Herbert Seifert in Heidelberg ( On the homotopia of the images of a polyhedron. Mathematical Journal, Vol. 61, 1954, p. 303). From 1951 he was an assistant in Heidelberg and after his habilitation in 1957 a lecturer. In 1960 he became a professor in Saarbrücken . In 1968 he returned to Heidelberg, where he stayed until his retirement in 1996, apart from guest stays at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1957/58, in Chicago in 1961 and in Minneapolis in 1966/67.

Doll worked on knot theory (with Martin Kneser as early as the 1950s) and homotopy theory.

From 1972 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( correspondence in Abelian categories ).

His students included Tammo tom Dieck , Hans-Werner Henn and Rudolf Fritsch .

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literature

  • Doll, Dieter. In: Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon. Vol. 3, Heidelberg 2009, p. 476.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Cf. Gabriele Dörflinger: Mathematics in the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . 2014, p. 60