Juerg Kramer

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Jürg Kramer (born June 3, 1956 in Zurich ) is a Swiss mathematician . He is a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin and deals with number theory , automorphic forms and arithmetic geometry.

Life

Kramer studied mathematics ( with a minor in physics and astronomy) at the University of Basel with a diploma in 1980 and received his doctorate there in 1985 under Martin Eichler ( Jacobiforms and theta series ). As a post-doctoral student he was at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and at Harvard University . In 1993 he completed his habilitation at the ETH Zurich , where he had previously been senior assistant from 1987, and in the same year was associate professor at the Université Laval in Québec . In 1994 he became professor for mathematics and its didactics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was deputy director or director of the mathematical institute from 1998 to 2008. From 2012 to 2014 he was a member of the Academic Senate of Humboldt University. In 2012 he was the founder of the Einstein Center for Mathematics and is on the board.

Kramer was, among other things, visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1991 , at the University of Paris-South in Orsay in 1999 and visiting professor at the Isaac Newton Institute in 1998 .

Among other things, he deals with Arakelov geometry (after Arakelov ) and the theory of modular forms . In addition to his research, he also deals with mathematics didactics and popularization of mathematics.

In 2013/14 he was President of the German Mathematicians Association . Since 2007 he has been the spokesman for the Berlin Mathematical School and is on the Matheon Council . From 2004 to 2010 he was the spokesman for the international DFG graduate school in Arithmetic and Geometry , and since 2012 he has been the spokesman for the international graduate school “Moduli and Automorphic Forms”.

Since it was founded in 2011, he has been the director of the German Center for Teacher Education in Mathematics and managing editor of the Elements of Mathematics . He has been a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( acatech ) since 2014 . In 2012 he became a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts

  • with Christophe Soulé , D. Abramovich, J.-F. Burnol: Lectures on Arakelov Geometry , Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 33, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, 1994.
  • with Heinrich GW Begehr, Helmut Koch , Norbert Schappacher , Ernst-Jochen Thiele (editor): Mathematics in Berlin. Birkhäuser-Verlag, 1998.
  • Numbers for beginners: elements of algebra and structure of the number ranges. Vieweg, 2008.

Articles for a wider readership:

  • About the Fermat conjecture . Parts 1 and 2. In: Elements of Mathematics , Volume 50, 1995, pp. 12-15, Volume 53, 1998, pp. 45-60.
  • Fermat's great theorem - the solution to a 300 year old problem. In: Martin Aigner , E. Behrends (Ed.): Alles Mathematik. Vieweg, 2000, pp. 169-179.
  • The Riemann Hypothesis . In: Elements of Mathematics , Volume 57, 2002, pp. 90–95.
  • The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture . In: Elements of Mathematics , Volume 57, 2002, pp. 115–120.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Juerg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich