Hanspeter Kraft

Hanspeter Kraft

Hanspeter Kraft (born February 29, 1944 in Basel ) is a Swiss mathematician . From 1981 to 2014 he was a full professor at the University of Basel . Kraft is an algebraic specialist and focuses on the algebraic transformation groups and classical invariant theory .

Life

Force studied from 1963 to 1969 mathematics at the University of Basel and graduated there in 1967. In 1969 his doctorate he with the work on the structure of the differential ring of a field extension finitely generated . From 1970 to 1974 he worked at the University of Bonn ; In 1974 he completed his habilitation there and was junior professor at the University of Regensburg for the next two years . In 1975 he returned to Bonn, where he was initially visiting professor and one year later he was assistant professor until 1979. From 1979 to 1981 he was employed as a full professor at the University of Hamburg . From 1981 until his retirement in July 2014, he held this position at the University of Basel. Kraft was Harm Derksen's doctoral supervisor .

Hanspeter Kraft taught at the University of Basel and was head of the Mathematical Institute. In addition, Kraft is the President of the Euler Commission , a company that has existed since 1907 and which has made it its business to publish the complete works of Leonhard Euler . As part of this activity, Kraft played a key role in organizing the “Euler Year 2007”. Kraft was also editor-in-chief of Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici from 1990 to 2006 , the publication organ of the Swiss Mathematical Society .

Fonts (selection)

• with Walter Borho : About the Gelfand-Kirillov dimension. In: Mathematical Annals . Vol. 220, No. 1, 1976, pp. 1-24 .
• with Claudio Procesi : Closures of conjugacy classes of matrices are normal. In: Inventiones Mathematicae . Volume 53, No. 3, 1979, pp. 227-247 .
• with Claudio Procesi: Minimal singularities in . ${\displaystyle GL_{n}}$In: Inventiones Mathematicae. Vol. 62, No. 3, 1981, pp. 503-515 .
• with Claudio Procesi: On the geometry of conjugacy classes in classical groups. In: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici . Volume 57, No. 4, 1982, pp. 539-602 .
• with Vladimir L. Popov: Semisimple group actions on the three dimensional affine space are linear. In: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. Vol. 60, No. 3, 1985, pp. 466-479 .
• with Gerald W. Schwarz: Reductive group actions with one-dimensional quotient. In: Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS . Volume 76, 1992, pp. 1-97, ( online ).
• with Martin Kohls: Degree bounds for separating invariants. In: Mathematical Research Letters. Volume 17, No. 6, 2010, pp. 1171-1182, doi : 10.4310 / MRL.2010.v17.n6.a15 .

Web links

• Hanspeter Kraft's website
• Radio interview from April 13, 2007 (DRS1): The Basel mathematics professor Hanspeter Kraft on the importance of Leonhard Euler.
• Geometric methods in invariant theory. Aspects of Mathematics, D1. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1984. ISBN 3-528-08525-8

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hanspeter Kraft at Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ^ Uni Basel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science: History of the Mathematical Department , last accessed on April 2, 2019
3. ↑ CV Hanspeter Kraft ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf; 109 kB)  
4. ↑ Head of the Mathematical Institute  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Website of the Euler Commission ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Final report on the Euler Year in Basel (pdf; 802 kB)
7. ^ Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici