Helga Baum (née Dlubek, born 1954) is a German mathematician. She is professor for

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 ...

and

global analysis In mathematics, global analysis, also called analysis on manifolds, is the study of the global and topological properties of differential equations on manifolds and vector bundles. Global analysis uses techniques in infinite-dimensional manifold th ...

in the Institute for Mathematics of the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

Education

Baum earned a doctorate (Dr. sc. nat.) in mathematics in 1980 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her dissertation, ''Spin-Strukturen und Dirac-Operatoren über Pseudoriemannschen Mannigfaltigkeiten'', was supervised by .

Books

Baum of the author or coauthor of books including: *''Conformal differential geometry: Q-curvature and conformal holonomy'', with Andreas Juhl, Birkhäuser, 2010 *''Eichfeldtheorie: Eine Einführung in die Differentialgeometrie auf Faserbündeln'' 'Gauge theory: An introduction into differential geometry on fibre bundles''(Springer, 2009; 2nd ed., 2014) *''Twistor and Killing spinors on Riemannian manifolds'', with Thomas Friedrich, Ralf Grunewald, and Ines Kath, Teubner, 1991 *''Spin-Strukturen und Dirac-Operatoren über pseudoriemannschen Mannigfaltigkeiten'' 'Spin structures and Dirac operators on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds'' Teubner, 1981

References

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