Karl Strambach
Karl Strambach (born May 10, 1939 in Tabor ; † October 13, 2016 in Erlangen ) was a German mathematician . He was primarily effective in the field of geometry and worked as a professor at several universities.
Life
Karl Strambach was born in Bohemia . After graduating from high school , he studied mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After graduating as a mathematician , he worked on a dissertation here with Helmut Salzmann and received his doctorate in 1966 on the subject of "Rich subgroups of geometric groups"
After receiving his doctorate, he first moved to the University of Tübingen as a university lecturer , where he later worked as a professor . Here he completed his habilitation with a paper on the subject of “spherical circular planes”.
In 1971 he moved to the University of Kiel , but one year later he was appointed full professor to the newly created Chair of Mathematics VI in Erlangen . Karl Strambach stayed at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for the next few decades and retired in autumn 2007 .
Researches
Strambach's main area of work was primarily geometry . But other areas such as topology , theory of manifolds , group theory and algebra were also among his research areas. Together with numerous students, employees and colleagues, he has achieved outstanding research results in this area.
As publisher , Strambach has been responsible for several international specialist journals. In addition to Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis , Forum Mathematicum and the Journal of Lie Theory , the journal Geometriae Dedicata , which he has run for over 30 years, and the journal Advances in Geometry, which he founded in 2002, should be mentioned in particular . He has also initiated numerous collaborations with foreign universities, including in Modena , Vienna and Debrecen .
Karl Strambach also strongly encouraged young scientists. In his academic school he has led almost 30 doctoral students to doctorate who are now working in the private sector and some of them are professors themselves, including Thomas Buchanan , who comes from the USA .
Honors (selection)
The achievements of Karl Strambach have been recognized nationally and internationally as well as recognized abroad:
- Honorary member of the Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena
- Member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2002 Johann Joseph Ritter von Prechtl Medal from the Vienna University of Technology
- 2007 Honorary doctorate from the University of Debrecen .
Publications (selection)
- Karl Heinrich Hofmann, Karl Strambach: Topological and analytical loops. Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Department of Mathematics, Preprint No. 869, 967 S. Darmstadt 1985.
- Karl Strambach, Helmut Völklein: Generalized braid groups and rigidity. IWR, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing at Heidelberg University 1994.
- Péter T. Nagy, Karl Strambach: Loops in Group Theory and Lie Theory. De Gruyter, Berlin; New York 2002, ISBN 978-3-11-017010-8 .
- Reiner Staszewski, Karl Strambach, Helmut Völklein: Lineare Algebra (textbook). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin; Boston 2008, online resource (pdf), ISBN 978-3-486-59864-3 .
- Reiner Staszewski, Karl Strambach, Helmut Völklein: Lineare Algebra (textbook). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58681-7 .
- Péter T. Nagy, Karl Strambach: Loops in Group Theory and Lie Theory. De Gruyter, Berlin; Boston, Reprint 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-090058-3 .
- Giovanni Falcone, Peter Plaumann, Karl Strambach: Monothetic algebraic groups. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen 2013, online resource. [1]
- Olga Belova, Josef Mikeš, Karl Strambach: Geodesics and Almost Geodesics Curves. SpringerLink (online service), online resource. [2]
Even after his retirement, Karl Strambach was still very active scientifically and, in addition to his book publications, has published a total of more than 120 specialist articles.
literature
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Strambach in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Strambach: Rich subsets of geometric groups. Dissertation, University of Frankfurt a. M., Faculty of Natural Sciences, Dec. 1965.
- ↑ Karl Strambach: Spherical county levels. Habilitation thesis, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Nov. 1968.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strambach, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician, university professor for mathematics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tábor |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 2016 |
| Place of death | gain |