T. A. Springer

Tonny Albert Springer, TA Springer frequently cited, ( born February 13, 1926 in The Hague, † December 7, 2011 in Zeist ) was a Dutch mathematician who worked on algebra.

Springer studied from 1945 at the University of Leiden, where he ( symplectic transformations over ) in 1951 received his doctorate under Hendrik Kloosterman. As a post-doc, he was 1951/52, at the University of Nancy and then again at Leiden University and in 1955 at Utrecht University, where he received a full professorship in 1959. In 1991 he became Professor Emeritus. He has been a visiting scientist at the University of Göttingen ( 1963), the Institute for Advanced Study ( 1961/62, 1969, 1983), at the IHES (1964, 1973, 1975, 1983), at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (1968, 1980 ), at UCLA (1965 /66), the Australian National University and the University of Sydney, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Basel, the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna and the University of Paris VI.

Springer dealt in particular with linear algebraic groups, where Springer representations of the Weyl group are named after him.

He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 1964. In 1962 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm (Twisted composition algebras ) and in Madrid in 2006 ( Some results on compactifications of semisimple groups).

His doctoral include Aryeh Cohen and Gerrit van Dijk ..

Writings

  • Jordan Algebras and Algebraic Groups, Springer, Classics in Mathematics, 1998
  • Ferdinand D. Veldkamp: Octonions, Jordan Algebras, and Exceptional Groups, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, 2000
  • Linear algebraic groups, Birkhäuser 1998, 2009
  • Invariant Theory, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics Bd.585, 1977
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