Wilfried Schmid
Wilfried Schmid (born May 28, 1943 in Hamburg ) is a German-American mathematician who deals with representation theory of groups, Hodge's theory and automorphic functions.
Schmid, the son of the philologist Wolfgang Schmid , grew up in Bonn and moved from Germany to the USA in 1960 when his father was at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1960/61 . He studied at Princeton University (bachelor's degree in 1964) and received his doctorate in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley with Phillip Griffiths . He then taught at Berkeley University. In 1968 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1970 he received a full professorship at Columbia University . From 1978 he was a professor at Harvard University , currently as Dwight Parker Robinson Professor for Mathematics .
Schmid dealt with the construction of Discrete Series - representations of semi-simple Lie groups . He proved an assumption by Robert Langlands . With Michael Atiyah he constructed all discrete series representations in the space of harmonic spinors . In 1975 he and his student Henryk Hecht proved a conjecture by Robert Blattner (Inventiones Mathematicae Vol. 31, p. 129) about the description of the discrete series representations of a semi-simple group by those of a maximally compact subgroup. He also dealt with applications of Lie group theory in complex algebraic geometry, for example in the description of the period mapping of his teacher Phillip Griffiths.
He is also involved in math education for schools (after he first publicly complained in 1999 about his daughter's math classes), including on US government commissions and reformed the math curriculum for schools in Massachusetts. He was also on the program committee of the International Congress of Mathematics Education (2004).
In 1978 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Helsinki (Representations of semisimple Lie groups). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society , a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003, and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2020 .
Web links
- Wilfried Schmid in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- Homepage in Harvard
- Biography at the US Department of Education
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scharlau, Happiness to be a mathematician, Springer 2016, p. 71
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| SURNAME | Schmid, Wilfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |