Susanne Dierolf (16 July 1942 – 24 April 2009) was a German mathematician specializing in the theory of
topological vector spaces. She was a professor for many years at the
University of Trier
The University of Trier (german: Universität Trier), in the German city of Trier, was founded in 1473. Closed in 1798 by order of the then French administration in Trier, the university was re-established in 1970 after a hiatus of some 172 y ...
.
Life
Dierolf was born on 16 July 1942 in
Bratislava
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, at the time under German occupation and administered as part of
Lower Austria
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.
She completed her doctorate in 1974 at the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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, with the dissertation ''Über Vererbbarkeitseigenschaften in topologischen Vektorräumen'' supervised by . She continued at Munich as an assistant, earning her habilitation there in 1985. She became a
Privatdozent
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at Trier in 1985, and
außerplanmäßiger Professor in 1991.
She died on 24 April 2009.
Research
Dierolf published 71 mathematics papers and was the advisor to ten doctoral students. Highlights of her research contributions include the solution of four problems of
Alexander Grothendieck and of a conjecture of Dmitriĭ A. Raĭkov. Her work often involved the construction of
counterexamples, for which she became known as "Mrs. Counterexample".
Beyond the main part of her work on
topological vector spaces, she was also a coauthor of a book on
topological group
In mathematics, topological groups are logically the combination of groups and topological spaces, i.e. they are groups and topological spaces at the same time, such that the continuity condition for the group operations connects these two str ...
theory, ''Uniform structures on topological groups and their quotients'' (with Walter Roelcke, McGraw-Hill, 1981).
Recognition
A special volume of the journal ''Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici'' was published in Dierolf's memory in 2011.
References
External links
Archived copy of home page
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1942 births
2009 deaths
Scientists from Bratislava
20th-century German mathematicians
German women mathematicians
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Academic staff of the University of Trier
20th-century women mathematicians