[CvGmt News] Friedrich Hirzebruch 1927 - 2012

[Terhi Tuulia Hautala]

Friedrich Hirzebruch 1927 - 2012

The first president of the European Mathematical Society, Friedrich 
Hirzebruch, has passed away. Fritz Hirzebruch studied mathematics at 
Münster. In 1956 he became professor at Bonn where he remained until his 
retirement. In 1980 he founded the Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, 
serving as Director until 1995. His profound contributions to 
mathematics – in applications of topology to algebraic manifolds and 
number theory – and to German mathematical life, were honoured by many 
prizes, including that of the Wolf foundation in 1988 and the Georg 
Cantor medal of the DMV in 2004. He was honorary president of the 1998 
International Congress of Mathematics in Berlin.
European mathematics has lost a great scholar and the EMS has lost one 
of its architects.

Detailed biographies:
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Hirzebruch.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hirzebruch

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