Cantor medal
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The Cantor medal of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung is named in honor of Georg Cantor
. It is awarded at most every second year during the yearly meetings of the society. The prize winners are mathematicians who are associated with the German language.
Georg Cantor
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between the members of two sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets,...
. It is awarded at most every second year during the yearly meetings of the society. The prize winners are mathematicians who are associated with the German language.
Prize winners
- 1990 Karl SteinKarl Stein (mathematician)Karl Stein was a German mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography...
- 1992 Jürgen MoserJürgen MoserJürgen Kurt Moser or Juergen Kurt Moser was a German-American mathematician.-Professional biography:...
- 1994 Erhard HeinzErhard HeinzErhard Heinz is a German mathematician known for his work on partial differential equations, in particular the Monge–Ampère equation....
- 1996 Jacques TitsJacques TitsJacques Tits is a Belgian and French mathematician who works on group theory and geometry and who introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, and the Tits group.- Career :Tits received his doctorate in mathematics at the age of 20...
- 1999 Volker StrassenVolker StrassenVolker Strassen is a German mathematician, a professor emeritus in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Konstanz.-Biography:Strassen was born on April 29, 1936, in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim....
- 2002 Yuri Manin
- 2004 Friedrich HirzebruchFriedrich HirzebruchFriedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation.-Life:He was born in Hamm, Westphalia...
- 2006 Hans FöllmerHans FöllmerHand Föllmer is a German mathematician, currently Professor Emeritus at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He was awarded the Cantor medal in 2006...
- 2008 Hans GrauertHans GrauertHans Grauert was a German mathematician. He is known for major works on several complex variables, complex manifolds and the application of sheaf theory in this area, which influenced later work in algebraic geometry. Together with Reinhold Remmert he established and developed the theory of...
- 2010 Matthias KreckMatthias KreckMatthias Kreck is a German mathematician who works in the areas of Algebraic Topology and Differential topology...