Andreas Dress

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Andreas Dress
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Dress in 1976
Born (1938-08-26) 26 August 1938 (age 81)
Alma mater
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisKonstruktion metrischer Ebenen (1962)
Doctoral advisorFriedrich Bachmann
Doctoral students

Andreas Dress (born 26 August 1938) is a German mathematician specialising in geometry, combinatorics and mathematical biology.

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]

He has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld since 1969.[2] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Welcome to PICB Shanghai !". PICB website. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  2. ^ a b "Andreas Dress". Institute for Advanced Study. 1974-08-31. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  3. ^ Andreas Dress at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ 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.