Peter Gruber (mathematician)

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Peter Gruber (2009)

Peter Manfred Gruber (born August 28, 1941 in Klagenfurt ; † March 7, 2017 ) was an Austrian mathematician who studied the geometry of numbers and discrete and convex geometry.

Life

Gruber grew up in Klagenfurt and from 1959 studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna and the University of Kansas . In 1966 he received his doctorate in Vienna under Nikolaus Hofreiter and Edmund Hlawka (investigations into the product of inhomogeneous linear forms) . He then worked as an assistant and, from 1970, a lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology . From 1971 he was professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and from 1976 at the TU Vienna, where he was chairman of the department several times.

In continuation of a number theory school established in Vienna by Furtwängler , Hofreiter and Hlawka, Gruber dealt with the geometry of numbers and was also an internationally known authority on discrete and convex geometry, e.g. B. with approximation questions, Baire category problems and lattice packing .

Peter Gruber was a member of AkV Aggstein in the ÖKV .

He was editor of the Selecta by Edmund Hlawka and co-editor of the works of Johann Radon .

His doctoral students include Professors Günter Lettl , Christian Buchta , Chuanming Zong and Monika Ludwig .

Awards

In 1967 he received the advancement award of the Austrian Mathematical Society . 1978, 1980 and 1982 he was chairman of the Austrian Mathematical Society . From 1988 he was a corresponding and from 1991 full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . He was also a member of the Academies of Sciences in Messina and Modena , corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and, since 2003, an external member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . He was an honorary doctor of the Universities of Siegen , Turin and Salzburg . In 2001 he received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class . In 1996 he received the medal of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists and in 2001 the medal of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague .

The Republic of Austria honored him in 2008 with the Great Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria . In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg .

In 2011 he was awarded the Johann Joseph Ritter von Prechtl Medal by the Vienna University of Technology . In 2013 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

  • with CG Lekkerkerker Geometry of Numbers . North Holland 1987 (Russian translation, Nauka, Moscow 2008)
  • with Paul Erdős , J. Hammer Lattice Points . Longman Scientific and Technical, Harwood, Essex, 1989
  • Convex and Discrete Geometry . Springer, Basic Teachings of Mathematical Sciences, 2007
  • Editor with Jörg Wills Handbook of Convex Geometry , 2 volumes. North Holland 1993
  • Editor with J. Wills Convexity and its applications . Birkhäuser 1983
  • On the history of convex geometry and the geometry of numbers . In Hirzebruch u. a .: A Century of Mathematics - 1890–1990 . Vieweg 1990 (Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the DMV)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Ludwig, Franz Schuster: Peter M. Gruber - an obituary . Vienna University of Technology , March 13, 2017, accessed on March 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Peter Gruber in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
  3. ↑ Chuanming Zong The geometry of numbers in Vienna . Mathematical Intelligencer 2009, No. 3, p. 25, also on Gruber.
  4. ↑ Federal Chancellor: Query response . List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952, April 23, 2012, accessed on March 14, 2017 (pdf, 6.6 MB).
  5. ^ Honorary doctorates for Sir Paul Nurse and University Professor Peter M. Gruber . Press information and photos from the University of Salzburg , March 22, 2010, accessed on March 14, 2017 (pdf, 844 kB).
  6. ↑ Academic dignitaries: Holders of the Prechtl Medal . ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vienna University of Technology, as of March 8, 2017, accessed on March 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuwien.ac.at
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruber, Peter Manfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2017