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Andreas Dress
Dress in 1976
Born(1938-08-26)26 August 1938
Died23 February 2024(2024-02-23) (aged 85)
Alma mater
Scientific career
Institutions
  • University of Bielefeld
  • Thesis Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen  (1962)
    Doctoral advisorFriedrich Bachmann
    Doctoral students
  • Katharina T. Huber
  • Andreas Dress (26 August 1938 – 23 February 2024) was a German mathematician specialising in geometry, combinatorics and mathematical biology.

    Biography

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    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.[3]

    Dress was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld beginning in 1969.[2] He was the first director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.[4] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[5]

    Dress died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 85.[4]

    See also

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    References

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    1. ^ "Welcome to PICB Shanghai !". PICB website. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  • ^ a b "Andreas Dress". Institute for Advanced Study. 31 August 1974. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  • ^ Andreas Dress at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • ^ a b "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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