Andreas Dress

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Andreas Dress
Dress in 1976
Born(1938-08-26)26 August 1938
Berlin, Germany
Died23 February 2024(2024-02-23) (aged 85)
Alma mater
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen  (1962)
Doctoral advisorFriedrich Bachmann
Doctoral students

Andreas Dress (26 August 1938 – 23 February 2024) was a German mathematician specialising in geometry, combinatorics and mathematical biology.

Biography

Dress earned his PhD from the University of Kiel in 1962, under the supervision of Friedrich Bachmann and Karl-Heinrich Weise. His thesis is entitled Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen.[3]

Dress was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld beginning in 1969.[2] He was the first director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.[4] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[5]

Dress died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 85.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Welcome to PICB Shanghai !". PICB website. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Andreas Dress". Institute for Advanced Study. 31 August 1974. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  3. ^ Andreas Dress at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ a b "Obituary | We mourn the loss of our external scientific member Andreas Dress". Max Planck Institute. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  5. ^ Dress, Andreas; Terhalle, Werner (1998). "The tree of life and other affine buildings". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 565–574.


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