Ulrich Pinkall (born 1955) is a German mathematician, specializing in differential geometry and computer graphics. Pinkall studied mathematics at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

with a

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in 1979 and a doctorate in 1982 with thesis ''Dupin'sche Hyperflächen'' (

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's hypersurfaces) under the supervision of

Martin Barner Martin Barner (19 April 1921 – 31 July 2020) was a German mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry and analysis. Barner received his doctorate in 1950 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg. From 1957 he was professor ...

. Pinkall was then a research assistant in Freiburg until 1984 and from 1984 to 1986 at the

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in Bonn. In 1985 he completed his habilitation in Bonn with thesis ''Totale Absolutkrümmung immersierter Flächen'' (Total absolute curvature of immersed surfaces). Since 1986 he is professor at

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. In 1985 he received the

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of the

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. In 1986 he received a ''Heisenberg-Stipendium'' from the

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(DFG). From 1992 to 2003 he was a speaker of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 288 (differential geometry and quantum physics). In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Quaternionic analysis of

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s and differential geometry'' at the

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in Berlin.

Selected publications

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arXiv preprint
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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinkall, Ulrich 1955 births Living people 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians Differential geometers University of Freiburg alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin