Horst Knörrer (born 31 July 1953, in Bayreuth) is a German mathematician, who studies algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. Knörrer studied from 1971 at

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and

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and received a doctorate in 1978 from the

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under the supervision of

Egbert Brieskorn Egbert Valentin Brieskorn (7 July 1936, in Rostock – 11 July 2013, in Bonn) was a German mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Education Brieskorn was born in 1936 as the son of a mill cons ...

(''Isolierte Singularitäten von Durchschnitten zweier Quadriken''). After that, he was a research assistant until 1985 in Bonn, interrupted by two years 1980 to 1982 at the Leiden University. In 1985 he completed his habilitation in Bonn and was a Heisenberg fellow the following two years. During 1986/87, he was a department representative at the

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. Since 1987, he is a full professor of mathematics at the ETH Zurich. Knörrer studies algebraic geometry and its connection to mathematical physics, for example, for integrable systems, as well as mathematical theory of many-particle systems in statistical mechanics and solid state physics (

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s). Together with Brieskorn, he wrote an extensive and rich illustrated textbook on algebraic curves, which also was translated into English.

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The original article was a translation of the corresponding German article.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Knorrer, Horst 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians 1953 births Living people Algebraic geometers Academic staff of ETH Zurich