Martin Barner (19 April 1921 – 31 July 2020) was a German mathematician working in the fields of
differential geometry and
analysis
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. Barner received his doctorate in 1950 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg. From 1957 he was professor in Karlsruhe and from 1962 at his alma mater in Freiburg, where he retired in 1989. From 1963 to 1994 he was director of the
Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach and from 1968 to 1977 he was president of the
German Mathematical Society
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He died in July 2020 at the age of 99.
Institute of Mathematics: Martin Barner death notice
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External links
Martin Barner
at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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1921 births
2020 deaths
20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
People from the Republic of Baden
People from Villingen-Schwenningen
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