Andreas Dress

{{Short description|German mathematician (1938–2024)}}

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  • Institute for Advanced Study{{cite web | title=Welcome to PICB Shanghai ! | website=PICB website | url=http://www.picb.ac.cn/director1.htm | access-date=24 April 2018 | archive-date=16 December 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216062037/http://www.picb.ac.cn/director1.htm | url-status=dead }}
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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.{{mathgenealogy|id=24752|name=Andreas Dress}}

Dress was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld beginning in 1969.{{cite web | title=Andreas Dress | website=Institute for Advanced Study | date=31 August 1974 | url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/andreas-dress | access-date=24 April 2018}} He was the first director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.{{cite web|url=https://www.mis.mpg.de/news/andreas-dress-passed-away|publisher=Max Planck Institute|title=Obituary {{!}} We mourn the loss of our external scientific member Andreas Dress | date=29 February 2024|access-date=11 March 2024}} In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.{{cite book|author=Dress, Andreas|author2=Terhalle, Werner|chapter=The tree of life and other affine buildings|title=Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III|year=1998|pages=565–574|chapter-url=https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011611000}}

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

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