Wolfgang Meyer (mathematician)

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Wolfgang T. Meyer, Erlangen 1977

Wolfgang T. Meyer (born March 19, 1936 in Münster ) is a German mathematician who deals with differential geometry . He is a professor at the University of Münster .

Live and act

Meyer received his doctorate in 1965 at the University of Bonn with Friedrich Hirzebruch (and Wilhelm Klingenberg ) (critical manifolds in Hilbert manifolds). He was at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was full professor in Münster from 1977. In 2001 he retired .

According to him, and Detlef Gromoll are Gromoll Meyer spheres named (an exotic 7-sphere, ie with unusual differential structure). Two theorems proved by him and Gromoll about manifolds with closed geodesics or positive curvature are named after both ( theorem of Gromoll-Meyer (geodesics) , theorem of Gromoll-Meyer (positive curvature) ).

Burkhard Wilking is one of his doctoral students , who is the successor to Meyer's chair in Münster.

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • together with Detlef Gromoll, Wilhelm Klingenberg: Differential geometry in the large . 2nd edition, Springer Verlag, Berlin 1975, ISBN 978-3-540-07133-4 , doi: 10.1007 / BFb0079185 (EA 1968).
  • with gromoll: Periodic geodesics on compact riemannian manifolds . In: Journal of Differential Geometry , Vol. 3 (1969), pp. 493-510, ISSN  0022-040X
  • with gromoll: On complete open manifolds of positive curvature . In: Annals of Mathematics , Vol. 90 (1969), Issue 2, pp. 75-90, ISSN  0003-486X
  • with Gromoll: On differentiable functions with isolated critical points . In: Topology , Vol. 8 (1969), pp. 361-369, ISSN  0040-9383
  • with gromoll: An exotic sphere with non-negative sectional curvature . In: Annals of Mathematics , Vol. 100 (1974), pp. 401-406, ISSN  0003-486X
  • With abresch: Pinching below 1/4, injectivity radius, and conjugate radius . In: Journal of Differential Geometry , Vol. 40 (1994), pp. 643-691, ISSN  0022-040X
  • mit Abresch: A sphere theorem with a pinching constant below 1/4 . In: Journal of Differential Geometry , Vol. 44 (1996), pp. 214-261, ISSN  0022-040X
  • mit Abresch: Injectivity radius estimates and sphere theorems . In: Karsten Grove (Ed.): Comparison Geometry ( Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, 30). CUP, Cambridge 1997, pp. 1-47, ISBN 0-521-59222-4 .
as editor
  • together with Uwe Abresch, Detlef Gromoll, François Labourie : Group Actions and Curvature . Mathematical Research Institute, Oberwolfach 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members of the German Mathematicians Association , 2007, p. 127
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Meyer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Gromoll, Meyer: An exotic sphere with non-negative sectional curvature . In: Annals of Mathematics , Vol. 100 (1974), pp. 401-406, ISSN  0003-486X
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Wolfgang T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster