Tonny Albert Springer

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Tonny Albert Springer , often quoted as TA Springer, (born February 13, 1926 in The Hague ; † December 7, 2011 in Zeist ) was a Dutch mathematician who dealt with algebra.

Springer studied from 1945 at the University of Leiden , where he received his doctorate under Hendrik Kloosterman in 1951 ( on symplectic transformations ). As a post-doc he was at the University of Nancy in 1951/52 and then again at the University of Leiden and from 1955 at the University of Utrecht , where he received a full professorship in 1959. In 1991 he retired. Among other things, he was visiting scholar at the University of Göttingen (1963), the Institute for Advanced Study (1961/62, 1969, 1983), the IHES (1964, 1973, 1975, 1983) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (1968, 1980 ), at UCLA (1965/66), the Australian National University and the University of Sydney, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the University of Basel, the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna and the University of Paris VI.

Springer dealt in particular with linear algebraic groups, where Springer's representations of the Weyl group are named after him.

He had been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 1964. In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Twisted composition algebras ) and in 2006 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Madrid ( Some results on compactifications of semisimple groups ).

His PhD students include Arjeh Cohen and Gerrit van Dijk .

Fonts

  • Jordan Algebras and Algebraic Groups, Springer, Classics in Mathematics, 1998
  • with Ferdinand D. Veldkamp: Octonions, Jordan Algebras, and Exceptional Groups, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, 2000
  • Linear algebraic groups, Birkhäuser 1998, 2009
  • Invariant theory, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics Vol. 585, 1977

Web links

  • Homepage
  • Arjeh Cohen et al. a., Obituary, Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, December 2012, pdf

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tonny Albert Springer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Springer, Tonny Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2011
Place of death Zeist