Peter Slodowy

Peter Slodowy ( born October 12, 1948 in Leverkusen, † 19 November 2002 in Bonn ) was a German mathematician who has been dealing with applications of group theory in algebraic geometry and topology.

Life and work

Slodowy studied from 1967 physics and mathematics at the University of Bonn ( among others, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Egbert Brieskorn, Jacques Tits ), where in 1974 he made ​​his mathematics degree. After a stay at IHES in Bures -sur- Yvette, where he met the pioneer of singularity theory René Thom, and Assist at the University of Regensburg from 1975 to 1978, he earned his doctorate in 1978 at the University of Bonn with Theodor Brocker and Brieskorn (Simple singularities and simple algebraic groups ). After that, he was an assistant at the University of Bonn ( with residencies at Yale University and at MSRI in Berkeley ), where he habilitated in 1984 ( singularities, Kac -Moody Lie algebras, associated groups and generalizations ). 1986/87 he was a lecturer at the University of Liverpool and in 1988 professor at the University of Stuttgart. From 1990 he was a professor at the University of Hamburg, but most recently worked at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. In 2001 he went prematurely because of an illness to retire.

Slodowy worked on the already Grothendieck and Brieskorn the late 1960s studied the context of the "simple" singularities (of him " Kleinian singularities " called ) algebraic surfaces with Lie groups and algebraic groups. Later Slodowy also examined relevant contexts (this time with Kac -Moody algebras ) in the case ( "simple elliptical " ) singularities. He also dealt with the history of mathematics and applications of group theory in mathematical physics.

He was married in 1979.

Writings

  • Singularities and algebraic groups Regensburger Mathematische Schriften, 1978, PhD thesis, advanced English edition: Simple singularities and simple algebraic groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 815, 1980, doi: 10.1007/BFb0090294
  • Platonic solids, Kleinian Singularities and Lie groups, in: Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1008, 1983, pp. 102-138, doi: 10.1007/BFb0065703
  • About the icosahedron and the equations of the fifth degree, in: Mathematical Miniatures, Volume 3, Birkhauser, 1986 ( emerged from the inaugural lecture )
  • The early development of the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups: Hurwitz, I. Schur, Weyl, annual report, DMV, Volume 101, 1993

Source

  • Obituary of Looijenga and Springer with appreciation of his work and a list of publications, University of Utrecht (2009 retrieved )
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