Norbert Schappacher

Norbert Schappacher in Oberwolfach , 2004

Norbert Schappacher (born October 8, 1950 in Essen ) is a German mathematician.

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Schappacher attended the Burggymnasium Essen and studied from 1969 at the University of Bonn a . a. with Günter Harder and Friedrich Hirzebruch , after completing their intermediate diploma in 1971 at the University of Göttingen (among others with Hans Grauert , Ulrich Stuhler , Martin Kneser ) and 1974/75 at the University of Berkeley (among others with Tsit Yuen Lam and Robin Hartshorne ). After graduating in 1975, he was an assistant in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1978 under Martin Kneser ( A Diophantine invariant of singularities over non-Archimedean bodies ). From 1979 to 1981 he was at the University of Paris XI in Orsay with John Coates and from 1983/84 at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPI) in Bonn with Günter Harder. In 1985 he was assistant professor (Professeur Associé) at the University of Paris XI, while he completed his habilitation in 1986 at the University of Göttingen ( Periods of Hecke operators ). In 1986 he was at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, then again assistant professor in Orsay and from 1987 to 1991 as a Heisenberg fellow at the MPI in Bonn. In 1990 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1991 professor at the University "Louis Pasteur" in Strasbourg . In 2001 he was a professor at the TU Darmstadt , and from 2004 back at the University of Strasbourg. He was a visiting scientist a. a. at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay, Göttingen (Gauß Professorship 2007 and Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg 2011/12) and at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge .

Schappacher is primarily concerned with number theory , arithmetic geometry and the history of mathematics, in particular with mathematics in Germany during the time of National Socialism (including Edmund Landau , Oswald Teichmüller and the Mathematical Institute in Göttingen), but also z. B. to Kurt Heegner , Bartel Leendert van der Waerden , Diophant of Alexandria and Leonhard Euler . He is editor of the "Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques" and co-editor of the "Elements of Mathematics".

He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Fonts

• with Michael Rapoport , Peter Schneider (Ed.): Beilinson's conjectures on special values ​​of L-functions , Academic Press, Boston 1988, ISBN 0-12-581120-9 (Oberwolfach-Tagung; Perspectives in Mathematics 4)
• Periods of Hecke characters , Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-540-18915-7 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1301)
• with Martin Kneser : Association - Institute - State. Highlights of the relationship between mathematics and society and politics in Germany since 1890, with special emphasis on the time of National Socialism . In: Gerd Fischer , Friedrich Hirzebruch , Winfried Scharlau , Willi Törnig (eds.): A century of mathematics 1890-1990. Festschrift for the anniversary of the DMV. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1990, ISBN 3-528-06326-2 (Documents on the History of Mathematics 6), pp. 1–82
• The Mathematical Institute of the University of Göttingen 1929–1950 ( PDF file, 4.4 MB) in Heinrich Becker, Hans-Joachim Dahms, Cornelia Wegeler (eds.): The University of Göttingen under National Socialism (2nd, expanded edition), KG Saur, Munich 1998, pp. 523–551 (more detailed typescript from 1983 in a new version from April 2000 online , PDF file, 355 kB)
• with Alexander Reznikov (Ed.): Regulators in analysis, geometry and number theory , Birkhäuser, Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7643-4115-7 (Progress in Mathematics 171)
• with Catherine Goldstein , Joachim Schwermer (eds.): The shaping of arithmetic after CF Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-20441-1
• On the history of Hilbert's twelfth problem, in: Michele Audin (ed.), Matériaux pour l'histoire des mathématiques au XXe siècle Actes du colloque à la mémoire de Jean Dieudonné (Nice 1996), SMF 1998

Web links

• Website at the University of Strasbourg