Eberhard Zeidler (mathematician)
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Eberhard Hermann Erich Zeidler (6 October 1940 in Leipzig, Germany – 18 November 2016 ibid) was a German mathematician, who worked primarily in the field of non-linear
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Life and work

After attending the Leipzig Eberhard Zeidler began studying mathematics at the
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in 1959. In 1961, he was exmatriculated because of critical statements, and was forced to work as a transport worker and absolve his military service in the East-German's NVA. In 1964, he was allowed to continue his studies. In 1967, he received his Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) with his work "" under . In 1970, he was appointed to
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and became a lecturer for
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at the University of Leipzig. From 1974 to 1996 he was
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for analysis. In the winter semester of 1979–1980, Eberhard Zeidler was a visiting professor at the
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(USA). From 1992 to 1996, he was head of the DFG research group on "" (Nonlinear functional analysis and its applications), and from 1992 to 2000 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics (german: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach) is a center for mathematical research in Oberwolfach, Germany. It was founded by mathematician Wilhelm Süss in 1944. It organizes weekl ...
. In 1996, Eberhard Zeidler became the first managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences when it was founded in Leipzig. In 2003, he gave up the management, but remained director. He retired in October 2007. Eberhard Zeidler has been a member of the
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...
since 1994. Also, he was one of the founding members of the Foundation Board and the Foundation Advisory Board of the Stiftung Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner.


Awards and honors

* 2005: International symposium of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences and the University of Leipzig on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Eberhard Zeidler * 2006: * 2014-02-21: Stiftung Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner Science Prize of the Teubner Foundation for the Promotion of Mathematical Sciences


Publications

* . Dissertation. Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, 1967. * . Habilitationsschrift. Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, 1970. Als Festschrift . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1971. * . 3 Volumes. Teubner, Leipzig. ** Volume 1: . 1976. 3rd ed., 1980. ** Volume 2: . 1977. 3rd ed., 1981. ** Volume 3: . 1978. 2nd ed., 1982. ** English edition: . Springer, New York, 1986–1997. * with Günter Grosche (ed.): . . Teubner, Stuttgart. ** Volume 1: 1996, ISBN 3-8154-2001-6. ** Volume 2: . 2003, ISBN 3-519-21008-8. ** English edition: ''
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''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2004, ISBN 0-19-850763-1. * ''Applied Functional Analysis''. Springer, New York, 1995. ** Volume 1: ''Applications to Mathematical Physics''. ISBN 0-387-94442-7. ** Volume 2: ''Main Principles and Their Applications''. ISBN 0-387-94422-2. * with Hans-Peter Gittel, Jerzy Kijowski: ''The relativistic dynamics of the combined particle field system in nonlinear renormalized electrodynamics''. Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig, Leipzig, 1997. * ''Quantum Field Theory.'' Springer, Berlin. ** Volume 1: ''Basics in Mathematics and Physics''. 2006, ISBN 3-540-34762-3. ** Volume 2: ''Quantum Electrodynamics''. 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-85376-3. ** Volume 3: ''Gauge Theory''. 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-22420-1. ** Volume 4–6: unfinished.


See also

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Bronshtein and Semendyayev ''Bronshtein and Semendyayev'' (often just ''Bronshtein'' or ''Bronstein'', sometimes ''BS'') is the informal name of a comprehensive handbook of fundamental working knowledge of mathematics and table of formulas originally compiled by the Rus ...


References


Further reading

* * Zeidler, Eberhard. In: Helmut Müller-Enbergs (ed.): "Wer war Wer in der DDR?: Ein Lexikon ostdeutscher Biographien." Berlin: , 2010, Vol. 2: M–Z, pp. 1467–1468. * * *

* University Archive Leipzig: Professorendatenbank. UAL PA 1995. * Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde: Aktenbestand MHF der DDR. DR/3–B Archivsignatur 1922 * * Zeidler, Eberhard. In: "Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender 1992" (16. ed.). Berlin:
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, 1992 (16) Vol. 3: S–Z, p. 4195. * Zeidler, Eberhard. "Berufung von Professoren neuen Rechts an die Universität Leipzig mit Wirkung vom 1. Juni 1992". In: Journal der Universität Leipzig, Issue 4/1992, pp. 3–4. * Schulte, Volker. "Eberhard Zeidler zum 65. - Mathematik macht bescheiden." In: Journal Universität Leipzig, 6/2005, p. 28. * Girlich, Hans-Joachim; Schlote, Karl-Heinz: "Mathematik." In: Ulrich von Hehl, Uwe John, Manfred Rudersdorf (eds.): "Geschichte der Universität Leipzig 1409–2009", Vol. 4: "Fakultäten, Institute, Zentrale Einrichtungen" (2. half-volume). Leipzig: Universitätsverlag 2009, pp. 1073–1097.


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