Hans-Volker Niemeier

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Hans-Volker Niemeier (born December 11, 1940 ) is a German mathematician.

Niemeier received his doctorate from Martin Kneser at the University of Göttingen in 1968 (definite quadratic forms of dimension 24 and discriminant 1). Until his retirement he was a professor at the Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences .

Niemeier classified (in his dissertation published in 1973) the straight, positive-definite unimodular lattices in 24 dimensions (including the Leech lattice ), the Niemeier lattice.

Fonts

  • Definite quadratic forms of dimension 24 and Discriminates 1, Journal of Number Theory, Volume 5, 1973, pp. 142-178.
  • with Gert Böhme, Helmut Kernler, Dieter Pflügel: Application-oriented Mathematics Volume 4: Current Applications of Mathematics, Springer 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Bregtalkurier No. 49, December 3, 2014
  2. ↑ Hans-Volker Niemeier in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Niemeier, Hans-Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1940