Walter Borho

Walter Borho (born December 27, 1945 in Hamburg ) is a German mathematician who deals with algebra and number theory.

Borho studied physics and mathematics at the University of Hamburg from 1967 to 1972 , where he received his doctorate in 1973 under Ernst Witt ( substantial whole extensions of commutative rings ). He then worked for five years as a research assistant and later as an assistant at the University of Bonn , where he completed his habilitation in 1977 and became a private lecturer. He has been a professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal since 1977 . He turned down calls to Hamburg and Vienna in 1983. He was on research stays in the USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, France, Great Britain and Israel.

Borho deals with representation theory, Lie algebras and Lie groups, algebraic groups, ring theory and also with number theory ( friendly numbers ) and tiling .

In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley (Nilpotent orbits, primitive ideals and characteristic classes - a survey).

Fonts

• with Jean-Luc Brylinski , Robert MacPherson : Nilpotent orbits, primitive ideals and characteristic classes. A geometric perspective in ring theory , Birkhäuser 1989
• Borho, Don Zagier et al. a .: Living numbers , Birkhäuser 1981 (therein from Borho: Friendly numbers )
• with Peter Gabriel , Rudolf Rentschler : Primideale Lie algebras that can be resolved in envelopes , Springer Verlag, Lecturenotes in Mathematics, Volume 357, 1973
• with Klaus Bongartz , Detlef Mertens, Andreas Steins: Colored parquets. Mathematical theory and execution on the computer , Birkhäuser 1988

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography in Colored Parquet
2. ↑ Walter Borho in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)