Peter Stefan

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Peter Stefan (* 1941 in Bratislava ; † June 18, 1978 in Tryfan ) was a Slovak mathematician who dealt with dynamic systems .

Stefan attended school in Bratislava and graduated from Charles University in Prague in 1965. He then worked there as an assistant and was politically active during the Prague Spring. In 1968 he was at a conference on dynamic systems at the University of Warwick when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. He stayed in Great Britain and received his PhD in 1973 under James Eells at the University of Warwick (Accessibility and Singular Foliations). He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Manchester in 1969/70. He then returned to the University of Warwick before becoming a lecturer at the University College of North Wales in Bangor . In 1976/77 he was at IHES . He was a mountaineer and died in a mountain accident in 1978 while climbing solo in Snowdonia .

literature

  • R. Brown, J. Eells, Peter Stefan, Bull. London Math. Soc., Volume 13, 1981, pp. 170-172.

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Individual evidence

  1. Peter Stefan in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used