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German mathematician (1941-2024)

Jürgen Herzog
Herzog in 2019
BornJürgen Reinhard Gerhard Herzog
(1941-12-21)21 December 1941
Heidelberg, Germany
Died23 April 2024(2024-04-23) (aged 82)
Alma materLouisiana State University
University of Regensburg
Purdue University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Duisburg-Essen
Doctoral advisorErnst A. Kunz [de]
WebsiteOfficial page

Jürgen Reinhard Gerhard Herzog (German: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; 21 December 1941 – 23 April 2024) was an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University of Duisburg-Essen, in Essen, Germany. From 1969 to 1975, he was Lecturer at University of Regensburg and from 1975 to 2009 a professor of Mathematics at University of Duisburg-Essen.

Biography

Herzog was born in Heidelberg on 21 December 1941 and raised in Eberbach. After military service in the German Army, he enrolled at the University of Kiel from 1963 and began studying mathematics and physics. Herzog transferred to the University of Heidelberg in 1964, and completed his undergraduate studies there. He received his Ph.D. with a thesis titled, Generators and Relations of Abelian Semigroups and Semigroup Rings at Louisiana State University in 1969 under the supervision of Ernst A. Kunz [de]. He completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg in 1974. He was an expert in the field of commutative algebra and its interactions to other mathematical fields such as combinatorics.

Personal life

Herzog died on 23 April 2024 in Germany, following a sudden heart attack.

Selected publications

  • Bruns, Winfred, Herzog, Jürgen, (1993). Cohen-Macaulay rings, Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics 39, Cambridge University Press.
  • Herzog, Jürgen, Hibi, Takayuki, (2011). Monomial Ideals, Graduate Text in Mathematics.
  • Ene, Viviana, Herzog, Jürgen, (2012). Gröbner Bases in Commutative Algebra, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 130. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI.
  • Herzog, Jürgen, Hibi, Takayuki, Ohsugi, Hidefumi, (2018). Binomial Ideals, Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics.

References

  1. "Jürgen Herzog". Faculty of Mathematics. University of Duisburg-Essen. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Curriculum vitae of Jürgen Herzog" (PDF). unibuc.ro. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  3. ^ Bruns, Wilfried; Conca, Aldo. "Jürgen Herzog (1941-2024)". Commalg.org.
  4. Bruns, Winfried; Conca, Aldo; Welker, Volkmar; Yassemi, Siamak (2013). "Preface: Special issue in honor of Jürgen Herzog on the occasion of his 70th birthday". J. Commut. Algebra. 5 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1216/JCA-2013-5-1-1.
  5. Jürgen Herzog at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Kohlhaase, Jan. "Obituary on Prof. Dr. Jürgen Herzog". Universität Duisburg-Essen.
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