Andreas Dress (born 26 August 1938) is a German
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
specializing in
geometry
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,
combinatorics
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and
mathematical biology
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.
Dress earned his PhD from the
University of Kiel
Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...
in 1962, under the supervision of
Friedrich Bachmann
Friedrich Bachmann (born 11 February 1909 in Wernigerode, died 1 October 1982 in Kiel.) was a German mathematician who specialised in geometry and group theory.
Life
Bachmann was the son of a Lutheran minister Hans Bachmann. Bachmann came fro ...
and
Karl-Heinrich Weise
Karl Heinrich Weise (24 May 1909, Gera – 15 April 1990, Kiel) was a German mathematician. In 1956 he was the president of the German Mathematical Society (''Deutsche-Mathematiker Vereinigung'', DMV).
Biography
Karl-Heinrich Weise, the son of a ...
. His thesis is entitled ''Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen''.
He has been a professor of mathematics at the
University of Bielefeld
Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization a ...
since 1969.
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the
International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
in Berlin.
See also
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Split networks
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SplitsTree
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*
T-theory T-theory is a branch of discrete mathematics dealing with analysis of trees and discrete metric spaces.
General history
T-theory originated from a question raised by Manfred Eigen in the late 1970s. He was trying to fit twenty distinct t-RNA molec ...
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Tight span
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References
Living people
1938 births
20th-century German mathematicians
University of Kiel alumni
Academic staff of Bielefeld University
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