Andreas Floer
| Andreas Floer | |
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Andreas Floer at age 19
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| Born | August 23, 1956 |
| Died | May 15, 1991 (aged 34) |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Ruhr-Universität Bochum University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Doctoral advisor |
Eduard Zehnder Ralf Stöcker |
| Known for | Floer homology |
Andreas Floer (German: [ˈfløːɐ]; 23 August 1956 – 15 May 1991) was a German mathematician who made seminal contributions to the areas of geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, in particular the invention of Floer homology.
He was an undergraduate student at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and received a Diplom in mathematics in 1982. He then went to the University of California, Berkeley and undertook Ph. D. work on monopoles on 3-manifolds, under the supervision of Clifford Taubes; but he did not complete it when interrupted by his obligatory alternative service in Germany. He received his Ph. D. (Dr. phil.) at Bochum in 1984, under the supervision of Eduard Zehnder.
Floer’s first pivotal contribution was a solution of a special case of Arnold's conjecture on fixed points of a symplectomorphism. Because of his work on Arnold's conjecture and his development of instanton homology, he achieved wide recognition and was invited as a plenary speaker for the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Kyoto in August 1990. He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1989.
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