Joachim Schwermer

Joachim Schwermer (born May 26, 1950 in Kulmbach ) is a German mathematician who is particularly concerned with number theory.

Joachim Schwermer in Oberwolfach 2010

After graduating from high school in 1969, Schwermer studied mathematics at the Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg at the University of Bonn . After receiving his diploma in 1974, he received his doctorate under Günter Harder in 1977 ( Eisenstein series and the cohomology of congruence subgroups of ${\ displaystyle SL_ {n} (\ mathbb {Z})}$ ). In 1982 he received his habilitation in Bonn. From 1986 he was a professor at the Catholic University of Eichstätt . In 1998 he moved to the University of Düsseldorf and finally in 2000 to the University of Vienna . There he worked as a university professor until his retirement in 2017 and at the same time as scientific director at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics from 2004 to 2016 .

In 1980/81 Schwermer was at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1987 he was awarded the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize .

In June 2016 the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics organized a conference on the cohomology of arithmetic groups on the occasion of Schwermer's 66th birthday .

Schwermer deals with algebraic groups in number theory, arithmetic geometry, Lie groups , automorphic functions and L-functions . He also wrote essays on the history of mathematics, for example on Helmut Hasse , Hermann Minkowski , Emil Artin .

Fonts

Cohomology of arithmetically defined groups and Eisenstein series (= Lecture Notes in Mathematics . 988). Springer, Berlin et al. 1983, ISBN 3-540-12292-3 , doi : 10.1007 / BFb0070268 .
About reciprocity laws in number theory. In: Horst Knörrer , Claus-Günther Schmidt, Joachim Schwermer, Peter Slodowy : Arithmetic and Geometry. Four lectures (= mathematical miniatures. 3). Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 1986, ISBN 3-7643-1759-0 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-0348-5226-5_2 , pp. 29-69.
as editor with Jean-Pierre Labesse : Cohomology of arithmetic groups and automorphic forms. Proceedings of a conference held in Luminy / Marseille, France, May 22–27, 1989 (= Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1447 = Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Subseries. Mathematical Institute of the University and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn. 15 ). Springer, Berlin et al. 1990, ISBN 3-540-53422-9 , doi : 10.1007 / BFb0085723 .
with Jens Carsten Jantzen : Algebra. Springer, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-540-21380-5 , doi : 10.1007 / 3-540-29287-X .
Minkowski, Hensel, and Hasse: On the Beginnings of the Local-Global Principle. In: Jeremy J. Gray , Karen Hunger Parshall (Eds.): Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra. (1800–1950) (= History of Mathematics. 32). American Mathematical Society et al., Providence RI et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-8218-6904-8 , doi : 10.1090 / hmath / 032/08 , pp. 153-177.
as editor with Catherine Goldstein , Norbert Schappacher : The Shaping of Arithmetic after CF Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. Springer, Berlin et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-20441-1 (in it by Schwermer: Reduction theory of quadratic forms: towards spatial perception in Minkowski's Early Work. Pp. 483-504, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540 -34720-0_18 ; with Della D. Fenster: Composition of Quadratic Forms: An Algebraic Perspective. Pp. 145–158, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-34720-0_5 ).

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Short biography in The Institute for Advanced Study. Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1980 – June 30, 1981. P. 41, (PDF; 4.6 MB).
↑ James W. Cogdell , Günter Harder , Stephen Kudla , Freydoon Shahidi (Eds.): Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups. On the Occasion of Joachim Schwermer's 66th Birthday, Bonn, Germany, June 2016 (= Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. 245). Springer, Cham 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-95548-3 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-319-95549-0 , Preface on the homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, accessed on July 30, 2020.
^ Conference on the Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups on the occasion of Joachim Schwermer's 66th birthday. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, 2016, accessed on May 5, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schwermer, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kulmbach

[1] Short biography in The Institute for Advanced Study. Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1980 – June 30, 1981. P. 41, (PDF; 4.6 MB).

[2] James W. Cogdell , Günter Harder , Stephen Kudla , Freydoon Shahidi (Eds.): Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups. On the Occasion of Joachim Schwermer's 66th Birthday, Bonn, Germany, June 2016 (= Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. 245). Springer, Cham 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-95548-3 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-319-95549-0 , Preface on the homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, accessed on July 30, 2020.

[3] Conference on the Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups on the occasion of Joachim Schwermer's 66th birthday. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, 2016, accessed on May 5, 2019 .