Detlef Gromoll (13 May 1938 – 31 May 2008) was a mathematician who worked in
Differential geometry
Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...
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Biography
Gromoll was born in
Berlin in 1938, and was a classically trained violinist.
After living and attending school in
Rosdorf and graduating from high school in
Bonn, he obtained his
Ph.D. in mathematics at the
University of Bonn in 1964.
Following sojourns at several universities, he joined the
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...
in 1969.
He married Suzan L. Lemay on 29 December 1971, and they had three children together: Hans Christian (also a mathematician), Heidi, and Stefan, a physicist & cofounder of Scientific Media.
See also
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Abresch–Gromoll inequality
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Rational homotopy theory
In mathematics and specifically in topology, rational homotopy theory is a simplified version of homotopy theory for topological spaces, in which all torsion in the homotopy groups is ignored. It was founded by and . This simplification of homo ...
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Splitting theorem
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Soul theorem
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1938 births
2008 deaths
Differential geometers
20th-century German mathematicians
People from Göttingen (district)
University of Bonn alumni
Stony Brook University faculty
German emigrants to the United States