[Todos CMAT] + sobre F. Hirzebruch

[Ezequiel Maderna]

Friedrich Hirzebruch 1927 - 2012

The first president of the European Mathematical Society, Friedrich  
Hirzebruch, has passed away. Fritz Hirzebruch studied mathematics at  
Münster. In 1956 he became professor at Bonn where he remained until  
his retirement. In 1980 he founded the Max-Planck-Institut fur  
Mathematik, serving as Director until 1995. His profound contributions  
to mathematics ? in applications of topology to algebraic manifolds  
and number theory ? and to German mathematical life, were honoured by  
many prizes, including that of the Wolf foundation in 1988 and the  
Georg Cantor medal of the DMV in 2004. He was honorary president of  
the 1998 International Congress of Mathematics in Berlin.
European mathematics has lost a great scholar and the EMS has lost one  
of its architects.

Detailed biographies:
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Hirzebruch.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hirzebruch


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