Friedrich Gotze

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Friedrich Götze in 2010

Friedrich Götze (born August 6, 1951 in Hameln ) is a German mathematician who deals with probability theory , mathematical statistics and number theory.

life and work

Götze studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen and the University of Bonn as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and received his doctorate in 1978 at the University of Cologne with Johann Pfanzagl ( Asymptotic Expansions in the Central Limit Theorem in Banach Spaces ), where he was then assistant, interrupted by a year as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1983 he completed his habilitation in Cologne ( asymptotic developments in central limit value sets ). In 1984 he became professor of mathematics at Bielefeld University . In 1990/91 and 2002/2003 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics.

He dealt with asymptotic methods, convergence rates and limit value theorems in mathematical statistics, Markov processes , stochastic algorithms, probability theory, functional analysis, spectral distribution in random matrices. He applied probabilistic methods in analytical number theory and the geometry of numbers, including the problem of the distribution and density of grid points in ellipses. Here, with the introduction of fundamental new methods, he succeeded, among other things, in a new (effective) proof of the Oppenheim conjecture proved by Margulis in 1986 . He was the spokesman for the DFG special research area on spectral structures and topological methods in mathematics .

In 2009 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 2012 he gave the Gauss lecture ( The Multidimensional Central Limit Theorem and the Geometry of Numbers ). In 2014 he was awarded the Order of Orange-Nassau for his services to the establishment of the European research institute Eurandom .

Götze is a board member of the scientific advisory board of the Weierstrass Institute (of which he is one of the founding members) and on the board of the Society for Mathematical Research, which is responsible for the Research Institute for Mathematics in Oberwolfach . He is a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Stochastics (IMS) and a member of the Academia Europaea . In 2017/18 he is Vice President and 2019/20 President of the German Mathematicians Association.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Eichelsbacher, Guido Elsner, Holger Kösters, Matthias Löwe, Franz Merkl (Eds.): Limit Theorems in Probability, Statistics and Number Theory: In Honor of Friedrich Götze , ISBN 978-3-642-36067-1 , DOI: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-36068-8 , p. 5
  2. ↑ Friedrich Götze in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Götze, Alexander Tikhomirov On the circular law for random matrices , Annals of Probability, Volume 38, 2010, pp. 1444-1492
  4. ↑ Bentkus, Götze Lattice point problems and distribution of values of quadratic forms , Annals of Mathematics, vol 150, 1999, pp 977-1027 , idol, Margulis distribution of values of quadratic forms at integral points in 2010
  5. ↑ Dutch king honors Bielefeld mathematicians. In: Neue Westfälische of August 28, 2014 (accessed on August 28, 2014).
  6. ^ Society for Mathematical Research eV
  7. ↑ Presidium elects DMV President and Vice (2017/18)
personal data
SURNAME Gotze, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin