Peter Dembowski

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Peter Dembowski in Erlangen in 1969

Peter Dembowski (born April 1, 1928 in Berlin , † January 28, 1971 in Tübingen ) was a German mathematician who dealt with combinatorics .

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Dembowski studied from 1948 to 1953 at the University of Frankfurt am Main . He then spent three years in the USA at Brown University and the University of Illinois , where he met Reinhold Baer , with whom he returned to Frankfurt in 1956 and received his doctorate in 1957 ( generalizations of transitivity classes of finite projective planes ). In 1964 he received his habilitation in Frankfurt. In 1969 he became a professor in Tübingen . In 1962/3 he was at Queen Mary College in London , in 1965/66 at the University of Wisconsin , 1966/67 at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in 1965 visiting professor in Rome .

Dembowski mainly worked on finite geometries (and their connections with group theory ), on which he wrote an authoritative textbook. From him comes the theorem, famous in finite geometry, that every finite Möbius plane (inversive plane) of even order arises from an ovoid in a finite projective space .

In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Partial planes with parallelism ).

William Kantor is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

  • Combinatorics. BI university paperbacks 1970.
  • Finite Geometries. Springer 1968, Results of Mathematics and their Frontier Areas, new in Classics of Mathematics 1997, ISBN 3-540-61786-8 .
  • Finite geometries. In: Mathematical-Physical Semester Reports. Volume 13, 1966, p. 32.
  • Inversive Planes of Even Order. In: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 69, No. 6, 1963, pp. 850-854 ( projecteuclid.org ).

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Dembowski, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1971
Place of death Tübingen