Gerd Hofmeister

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Gerd Rolf Ernst Hofmeister (born March 1, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German mathematician .

Life

Hofmeister received his doctorate in 1966 with the dissertation "On a Problem by Frobenius" at the University of Bergen . From 1966 to 1968 he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study , a private research institute in Princeton, New Jersey and Albert Einstein 's last place of work. After his habilitation in 1968, he became a research assistant at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , and in 1971 a scientific adviser and professor. In 1978 he was appointed full university professor.

It deals with additive number theory , for example, with the stamp issue ( Postage Stamp problem ).

Fonts (selection)

  • On a problem by Frobenius, Kgl. Norske Vid. Selsk., 1966, No. 5, pp. 1-37
  • On a lot of section bases, J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle J.), Volume 213, 1963, pp. 43-57, Part 2, Kgl. Norske Vid. Selsk., Forhandlinger, 39, 1966, pp. 60-65
  • with Norbert Hämmerer: On a presumption by Rohrbach, Journal for pure and applied mathematics, Volume 286/287, 1976, pp. 239–247.
  • with Mehdi Djawadi: The postage stamp problem, Mainzer Seminarberichte, Additive Zahlentheorie, 3, 1993, pp. 187–195
  • Die dreielementigen Extremalbasen, J. pure angew. Math., Volume 339, 1983, pp. 207-214
  • Asymptotic estimations for three-element extreme bases in natural numbers, J. pure angew. Math., Volume 232, 1968, pp. 77-101

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth from the membership book of the Institute for Advanced Study 1980
  2. ↑ Gerd Hofmeister in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Postage stamp problem MathWorld
personal data
SURNAME Hofmeister, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmeister, Gerd Rolf Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin