Günther Frei

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Günther Hans Frei (born May 19, 1942 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss mathematician and mathematician .

Günther Frei (left) with John Milnor, Yvonne Dold-Samplonius , Albrecht Dold, Zurich 2007

Frei studied mathematics, physics and languages in Zurich . He received his doctorate in 1968 under Bartel Leendert van der Waerden in Zurich with a thesis on geometry (contributions to axiomatic content theory). From 1968 he was an instructor at the University of Notre Dame and from 1970 he was at the University of Laval in Québec , where he was a professor since 1971. He has now retired and lives in Hombrechtikon .

Frei mainly deals with number theory and the history of mathematics, especially the 19th and 20th centuries (such as the biography of Helmut Hasse ), the history of number theory and Swiss mathematics. He is a member of the Euler Commission .

Fonts

  • Felix Klein. A biographical sketch. In: Yearbook overviews of mathematics. 1984, p. 229 (and Felix Klein. In: Collection Mathématique. Université Laval, Volume 40, 1981).
  • Life and work of Helmut Hasse. In: Collection Mathématique. Université Laval, 1977 (and Helmut Hasse. In: Collection Math. Volume 38, 1981).
  • Helmut Hasse. In: Expositiones Mathematicae. Volume 3. 1985, pp. 55-69.
  • with Urs Stammbach : Hermann Weyl and mathematics at the ETH Zurich 1913–1930. Birkhäuser 1992. limited preview in the Google Book search
  • with Urs Stammbach: Mathematics at Zurich universities. Birkhäuser 1994. limited preview in the Google book search
  • with Urs Stammbach: Mathematicians and Mathematics in Zurich, at the university and the ETH. Publication series of the ETH Library 2007.
  • with Peter Roquette (eds.): Emil Artin and Helmut Hasse - the correspondence 1923–1934. Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2008 (first in 1981 in Collection Mathématique. University Laval).
  • (Ed.): The correspondence between David Hilbert and Felix Klein 1886–1918. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1985.
  • with Urs Stammbach: Heinz Hopf . In: Ioan James (Ed.): History of Topology. Elsevier 1999.
  • The unpublished section eight: on the way to function fields over finite fields. In: Catherine Goldstein , Joachim Schwermer , Norbert Schappacher (eds.) The shaping of arithmetic - after CF Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae . Springer 2007 (also Nachrichten Akad. Wiss. Göttingen 2006),
  • Heinrich Weber and the emergence of class field theory. in David Rowe , John McCleary (Eds.) History of modern mathematics. Academic Press, 1989, p. 425.
  • Developments in the theory of algebra over number fields. in Jeremy Gray , Karen Parshall (ed.): Episodes in the history of modern algebra 1800–1950. American Mathematical Society 2007, pp. 117-151.
  • The reciprocity law from Euler to Eisenstein. in Sasaki, Sugiura, Joseph Dauben : The intersection of history and mathematics. Birkhäuser 1994.

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personal data
SURNAME Free, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frei, Günther Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mathematician and mathematician historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen