Christian Pommerenke (born 17 December 1933 in Copenhagen) is a mathematician known for his work in complex analysis. He studied at the University of Göttingen (1954–58), achieving diploma in

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(1957), Ph.D. (1959) on the dissertation ''Über die Gleichverteilung von Gitterpunkten auf m-dimensionalen Ellipsoiden'' (1959) and

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(1963). Pommerenke subsequently joined the faculty as Assistant (1958–64) and Privatdozent (1964–66). Around the same time he served as assistant professor at the University of Michigan in

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(1961–62), was at Harvard University (1962–63) and was guest lecturer and reader at

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in London (1965–67). Since 1967 he has been professor in complex analysis at the mathematics department of the

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from tu-berlin.de He is now an

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. His doctoral students include Herbert Robert Stahl, known for proving the Bessis-Moussa-Villani (BMV) conjecture.

Books

*''Boundary behavior of conformal maps'' ( Springer-Verlag, 1992 ** *''Univalent functions''. With Gerd Jensen

References

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