Peter Dombrowski

Peter Dombrowski (born July 6, 1928 in Bromberg ) is a German mathematician who deals with differential geometry .

Peter Dombrowski

Life

Dombrowski studied from 1946 with Helmut Hasse , Erhard Schmidt and Willi Rinow at the Humboldt University Berlin (diploma 1952) and followed Rinow to the University of Greifswald , where he was his assistant from 1950 to 1955. In 1955 he left the GDR for political reasons and became a research assistant at the University of Bonn with Ernst Peschl . He received his doctorate in 1957 in Bonn under Wolfgang Krull ( on the substitution rule for n-dimensional Lebesgue integrals in real number spaces and manifolds ). In Bonn he also studied with Friedrich Hirzebruch , was his first assistant from 1957 and later a close colleague. In 1959/60 and 1960/61 he was a Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1962 he completed his habilitation and then became a lecturer in Bonn. From 1966 he was a full professor at the University of Cologne .

1970 to 1983 he was editor of the Mathematische Annalen .

He should not be confused with Peter J. Dombrowski (* 1962), professor at the Naval War College in Newport (Rhode Island) .

Fonts

• Paths in Euclidean Planes. Kinematics of the special theory of relativity. A selection of geometric topics with contributions to their history of ideas , Springer Verlag 1999
• Differential geometry in G. Fischer u. a. A Century of Mathematics , Vieweg 1990
• Differential Calculation I and Outline of Linear Algebra , BI University Pocket Book 1970
• 150 years after Gauss' Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas , Asterisque, Volume 62, 1979, pp. 97-153
• Differential geometry - 150 years after the "Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas" by Carl Friedrich Gauß , treatises of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Volume 27, 1977, pp 63-102
• Co-author and editor: Lectures on the theory of the rotational number and its applications , seminar on topology by Friedrich Hirzebruch 1956/57, Bonn, Mathematical Institute
• On the geometry of the tangent bundle. J. Reine Angew. Math. 210 1962 73-88.

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of members of the German Mathematicians Association e. V. 2007, p. 37
2. ^ Honorary Colloquium Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Greifswald One Hundred Years of Willi Rinow , pdf
3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. ↑ Scharlau, Das Glück Mathematiker zu sein, Springer 2016, p. 83f, with a short biography
5. ^ List of Moore Lecturer