Werner Müller (born 7 September 1949) is a German mathematician. His research focuses on

global analysis In mathematics, global analysis, also called analysis on manifolds, is the study of the global and topological properties of differential equations on manifolds and vector bundles. Global analysis uses techniques in infinite-dimensional manifold th ...

and automorphic forms.

Biography

Werner Müller grew up in the

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(East Germany). He studied mathematics at the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

in East Berlin. In 1977 he completed his PhD under the supervision of Herbert Kurke. In his thesis, ''Analytische Torsion Riemannscher Mannigfaltigkeiten,'' he solved, at the same time as but independently of

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, the Ray–Singer conjecture on the equality between

analytic torsion In mathematics, Reidemeister torsion (or R-torsion, or Reidemeister–Franz torsion) is a topological invariant of manifolds introduced by Kurt Reidemeister for 3-manifolds and generalized to higher dimensions by and . Analytic torsion (or Ray– ...

and

Reidemeister torsion In mathematics, Reidemeister torsion (or R-torsion, or Reidemeister–Franz torsion) is a topological invariant of manifolds introduced by Kurt Reidemeister for 3-manifolds and generalized to higher dimensions by and . Analytic torsion (or Ray– ...

. Thereafter he moved to the Karl-Weierstraß-Institut für Mathematik of the

Academy of Sciences of the GDR The German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, german: Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (DAW), in 1972 renamed the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (''Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR (AdW)''), was the most eminent research institution ...

. After the reunion of Germany he spent some time at the

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (german: Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, MPIM) is a prestigious research institute located in Bonn, Germany. It is named in honor of the German physicist Max Planck and forms part of the Max Planck S ...

in Bonn. Since 1994 he is Professor at the Mathematics Institute of the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

. He is the successor on the chair of Friedrich Hirzebruch. He has supervised 12 doctoral students, including

Maryna Viazovska Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska ( uk, Марина Сергіївна Вязовська, ; born 2 December 1984) is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of M ...

. Together with

, he has been awarded the Max-Planck-Forschungspreis in 1991 . The Cheeger–Müller theorem on the

of Riemannian manifolds is named after them.Maxim Braverman
New Proof of the Cheeger–Müller Theorem
Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, vol. 23 (2003), no. 1, pp. 77-92

Important Papers

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References

External links

��Conference in honor of his 60. birthday at the

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in Bonn

��Conference in honor of his 60. birthday at the

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