Andreas Dress (26 August 1938 – 23 February 2024) was a German mathematician specialising in geometry, combinatorics and mathematical biology.
Andreas Dress | |
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 Dress in 1976 | |
| Born | 26 August 1938 |
| Died | 23 February 2024 (aged 85) |
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| Thesis | Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Friedrich Bachmann |
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Biography edit
Dress earned his PhD from the University of Kiel in 1962, under the supervision of Friedrich Bachmann and Karl-Heinrich Weise. His thesis is entitled Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen.[3]
Dress was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld beginning in 1969.[2] He was the first director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.[4] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[5]
Dress died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 85.[4]
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References edit
- ^ "Welcome to PICB Shanghai !". PICB website. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Andreas Dress". Institute for Advanced Study. 31 August 1974. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ Andreas Dress at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Obituary | We mourn the loss of our external scientific member Andreas Dress". Max Planck Institute. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ Dress, Andreas; Terhalle, Werner (1998). "The tree of life and other affine buildings". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 565–574.
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