Peter Slodowy

{{Short description|German mathematician}}

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Peter Slodowy (12 October 1948, in Leverkusen – 19 November 2002, in Bonn) was a German mathematician who worked on singularity theory and algebraic geometry.

He completed his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Regensburg in 1978 under the direction of Theodor Bröcker and Egbert Brieskorn. The Slodowy correspondence is named after him.

Publications

  • {{Citation | last1=Slodowy | first1=Peter | title=Simple Singularities and Simple Algebraic Groups | publisher=Springer-Verlag | location=Berlin, New York | series=Lecture Notes in Mathematics | isbn=978-3-540-10026-3 | doi=10.1007/BFb0090294 |mr=584445 | year=1980 | volume=815}}

References

  • {{MathGenealogy|18259}}
  • {{Citation | last1=Hirzebruch | first1=Friedrich | author1-link=Friedrich Hirzebruch | title=Geometry and topology of caustics---CAUSTICS '02 | url=http://journals.impan.gov.pl/bc/PDF/bc62-0-001.pdf | publisher=Polish Acad. Sci. | location=Warsaw | series=Banach Center Publ. |mr=2055866 | year=2004 | volume=62 | chapter=Traueransprache für Peter Slodowy, 27. November 2002 | pages=13–17}}

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Category:20th-century German mathematicians

Category:1948 births

Category:2002 deaths

Category:University of Regensburg alumni

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