| Andreas Dress | |
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 Dress in 1976 | |
| Born | (1938-08-26)26 August 1938 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 23 February 2024(2024-02-23) (aged 85) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Friedrich 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.
Dress was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld beginning in 1969. He was the first director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
Dress died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 85.
See also
References
- "Welcome to PICB Shanghai !". PICB website. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ "Andreas Dress". Institute for Advanced Study. 31 August 1974. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- Andreas Dress at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Obituary | We mourn the loss of our external scientific member Andreas Dress". Max Planck Institute. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- 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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