Martin Barner (19 April 1921 – 31 July 2020) was a German mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry and

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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

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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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1921 births 2020 deaths 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians People from the Republic of Baden People from Villingen-Schwenningen {{germany-mathematician-stub