Holger P. Petersson

Holger P. Petersson (* 1939 in Hamburg ) is a German mathematician .

Life

He is a son of the mathematician Hans Petersson and his wife Margarethe, geb. Ehlers (1903-1994). His brother is the physicist Jörn Petersson (* 1936). From 1959 to 1965 Holger Petersson studied mathematics and physics at the Universities of Münster and Munich . After receiving his doctorate in mathematics in 1965 at the University of Munich , he taught from 1966 to 1968 as an Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, at the University of Iowa . From 1968 to 1969 he received a research grant from the DFG at the University of Munich. From 1970 to 1973 he was a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Münster . After completing his habilitation in mathematics in 1971 at the University of Münster, he taught there from 1973 to 1978 as a scientific adviser and professor of mathematics. From 1978 to 2004 he was Professor of Mathematics at the Distance University in Hagen . He has been retired since 2004 .

His main research interests are composition algebras and cubic Jordan algebras, non-associative division algebras, quadratic forms over Hensel fields.

Fonts (selection)

• About a generalization of Jordan algebras . 1966, OCLC 831085624 .
• as editor with Wilhelm Kaup and Kevin McCrimmon : Jordan algebras. Proceedings of the conference held in Oberwolfach, Germany, August 9-15, 1992 . Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-11-014251-1 .
• with Richard M. Weiss and Bernhard Mühlherr : Descent in buildings . Princeton 2015, ISBN 978-0-691-16690-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Holger P. Petersson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Holger P. Petersson

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Wohlfahrt:  Petersson, Wilfried Hans Henning. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 261 f. ( Digitized version ).