Peter Gritzmann

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Gritzmann in Oberwolfach 2010

Peter Gritzmann (born December 17, 1954 in Dortmund ) is a German mathematician.

Life

Gritzmann studied mathematics (minor in economics) at the University of Dortmund with a diploma in 1978. He received his doctorate in 1980 under Jörg Wills at the University of Siegen ( polyhedral realizations of closed 2-dimensional manifolds in ) and completed his habilitation in Siegen in 1984.

Afterwards he was professor in Siegen, Augsburg and at the University of Trier and has been professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Munich since 1997 . From 2004 to 2008 he was director of the Carl Linde Academy there, and from 2008 to 2011 he was vice president for teaching at the Technical University of Munich. He was visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle , the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the University of Paris VII .

Act

Gritzmann deals with discrete mathematics, optimization and applied geometry. He also wrote a popular science math book.

From 1974 to 1978 he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and in 1986/87 he received a Fedor Lynen research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (of which he later chaired the selection committee for the grant). In 1992 he received the Max Planck Research Award, in 2000 the Karl Max von Bauernfeind Medal and in 2013 the Euro Excellence in Practice Award. In 2002 and 2003 he was President of the German Mathematicians Association . From 2002 to 2006 he was on the board of trustees of the Deutsches Museum .

Fonts

  • with René Brandenberg: The secret of the shortest route. A math adventure. Springer, Berlin et al. 2002 (published 2001), ISBN 3-540-42028-2 (3rd, revised edition. Ibid 2005, ISBN 3-540-22193-X ; also translated into Italian and Japanese).
  • as editor with Ehrhard Behrends , Günter M. Ziegler : π & Co. Kaleidoskop der Mathematik. Springer, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-77888-2 .
  • Fundamentals of Mathematical Optimization. Discrete structures, complexity theory, convexity theory, linear optimization, simplex algorithm, duality. Springer Spectrum, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-528-07290-2 .

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