Eckart Viehweg (born 30 December 1948 in
Zwickau
Zwickau (; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ' ...
, died 29 January 2010)
was a German mathematician. He was a professor of
algebraic geometry
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...
at the
University of Duisburg-Essen
The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...
.
In 2003 he won the
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...
with his wife,
Hélène Esnault
Hélène Esnault (born 17 July 1953) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.
Biography
Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII. She wrote her dissertation on ''Singularit ...
.
See also
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Kawamata–Viehweg vanishing theorem In algebraic geometry, the Kawamata–Viehweg vanishing theorem is an extension of the Kodaira vanishing theorem, on the vanishing of coherent cohomology groups, to logarithmic pairs, proved independently by Viehweg and Kawamata in 1982.
The th ...
References
External links
HomepageBook: ''Hélène Esnault, Eckart Viehweg'': "Lectures on Vanishing Theorems" (PDF, 1.3 MB)Book: ''Eckart Viehweg'': "Quasi-projective Moduli for Polarized Manifolds" (PDF, 1.5 MB)
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1948 births
2010 deaths
People from Zwickau
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Duisburg-Essen