Hausdorff Center for Mathematics

The Hausdorff Center for Mathematics ( German: Hausdorff Center for Mathematics ) is a research institute in Bonn, which of the four mathematical institutes at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ( Department of Mathematics, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Institute for Numerical Simulation, Research Institute is supported for Discrete Mathematics ), the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics ( MPI) and the Institute for Social and Economic Sciences. It was developed as part of the Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments to promote science and research at German universities as a so -called cluster of excellence. ( The Hausdorff Center for Mathematics is the only cluster of excellence in mathematics in Germany. ) On October 13, 2006, the application of the Bonn scientists was approved at the Excellence Initiative, officially the center was opened with an opening Colloquium on 19 and 20 January 2007. Professorships at this center are called Hausdorff chairs.

Overall, about 50 Bonn professors are involved in the center: all the professors of mathematics, the MPI and the theoretical economics. For this, the MPI Director Gerd Faltings include (Field medalist ) and Reinhard Selten, who in 1994 received the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research in game theory.

Named the center after the mathematician Felix Hausdorff is (* November 8, 1868; † January 26, 1942 ).