Heiner Zieschang

Heiner Zieschang (born November 12, 1936 in Kiel , † April 5, 2004 in Bochum ) was a German mathematician who dealt in particular with knot theory .

Life

Zieschang studied from 1956 to 1961 in Hamburg and Göttingen. In 1961 he received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen under Kurt Reidemeister ( about simple curves on pretzels ). He headed the chair for topology at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1968 until his retirement in 2002. He was the youngest professor in Germany at the time and was one of the founding fathers of the faculty for mathematics in Bochum. Zieshang's scientific work includes work on low-dimensional topology, knot theory and combinatorial group theory . For his achievements, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toulouse 3 in 1996 and the title of Honorary Professor from Lomonosov University in 1997 . He was also involved in the establishment and work of the Russian-German Institute for Culture and Science at Moscow University. In 1993 he was awarded the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize .

Zieschang was a member of the collective of authors Boto von Querenburg , under whose name the standard work "Set Theoretical Topology" was published.

Trivia

Heiner Zieschang was the doctoral supervisor of the basketball and chess player Růžena Škodová-Davoodi .

Honors

• 1993 Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize
• 1996 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Toulouse 3
• 1997 honorary professor at Lomonosov University
• 2008 posthumous dedication of the 14th edition of the Geometry & Topology Monographs

Books

• Heiner Zieschang: Areas and flat discontinuous groups. Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-540-04911-8 .
• Heiner Zieschang: Surfaces and planar discontinuous groups. Berlin 1980, ISBN 0-387-10024-5 .
• Heiner Zieschang: Finite groups of mapping classes of surfaces. Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-540-10857-2 .
• Gerhard Burde, Heiner Zieschang: Knots. Berlin u. a. 1985, ISBN 3-11-008675-1 .
• Ralph Stöcker, Heiner Zieschang: Algebraic Topology. Teubner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-519-02226-5 .
• Heiner Zieschang: Linear Algebra and Geometry. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-519-02230-3 .
• Boto v. Querenburg : Set theoretical topology. 3. Edition. Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3540677909 .

Fonts (selection)

• with G. Burde: A mark of the torus knot. Math. Ann., 167 (1966) 169-176. ( Seifert fiber space conjecture for nodal complements ).
• Via the Nielsen shortening method in free products with amalgam. Invent. Math., 10 1970 4-37.
• with N. Peczynski, G. Rosenberger: About generators of plane discontinuous groups. Invent. Math. 29 (1975) no. 2, 161-180. (Rank of Fuchsian groups ).
• with RP Osborne: Primitives in the free group on two generators. Invent. Math., 63 (1981) no. 1, 17-24.
• with M. Boileau: Heegaard genus of closed orientable Seifert 3-manifolds. Invent. Math. 76 (1984) no. 3, 455-468. (Counterexamples to the presumption of rank).
• with M. Boileau, M. Rost: On Heegaard decompositions of torus knot exteriors and related Seifert fiber spaces. Math. Ann. 1988, 279 , no. 3, 553-581. (Ambiguity of the Heegaard decompositions ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ↑ ^{a b} RUBENS - Journal of the Ruhr University: People at the RUB. Student University Bochum. Obituaries. May 1, 2004.

Web links

• Ruhr University mourns Prof. Heiner Zieschang.
• Heiner Zieschang - his life and work. ( Memento of December 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 43 kB)
• The Zieschang memorial. Geometry & Topology Monographs 14 (2008).
• Burde, Weidmann: Heiner Zieschang. ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )