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Jürgen Herzog
Herzog in 2019
Born
Jürgen Reinhard Gerhard Herzog

(1941-12-21)21 December 1941
Heidelberg, Germany
Died23 April 2024(2024-04-23) (aged 82)
Alma materLouisiana State University
University of Regensburg
Purdue University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Duisburg-Essen
Doctoral advisorErnst A. Kunz [de]
WebsiteOfficial page

Jürgen Reinhard Gerhard Herzog (German: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; 21 December 1941 – 23 April 2024) was an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University of Duisburg-Essen, in Essen, Germany.[1] From 1969 to 1975, he was Lecturer at University of Regensburg and from 1975 to 2009 a professor of Mathematics at University of Duisburg-Essen.[2]

Biography

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Herzog was born in Heidelberg on 21 December 1941 and raised in Eberbach.[2][3] After military service in the German Army, he enrolled at the University of Kiel from 1963[2] and began studying mathematics and physics. Herzog transferred to the University of Heidelberg in 1964, and completed his undergraduate studies there.[4] He received his Ph.D. with a thesis titled, Generators and Relations of Abelian Semigroups and Semigroup Rings at Louisiana State University in 1969 under the supervision of Ernst A. Kunz [de].[5] He completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg in 1974.[2] He was an expert in the field of commutative algebra and its interactions to other mathematical fields such as combinatorics.[3]

Personal life

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Herzog died on 23 April 2024 in Germany, following a sudden heart attack.[6][3]

Selected publications

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  • Bruns, Winfred, Herzog, Jürgen, (1993). Cohen-Macaulay rings, Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics 39, Cambridge University Press.
  • Herzog, Jürgen, Hibi, Takayuki, (2011). Monomial Ideals, Graduate Text in Mathematics.
  • Ene, Viviana, Herzog, Jürgen, (2012). Gröbner Bases in Commutative Algebra, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 130. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI.
  • Herzog, Jürgen, Hibi, Takayuki, Ohsugi, Hidefumi, (2018). Binomial Ideals, Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics.

References

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  1. ^ "Jürgen Herzog". Faculty of Mathematics. University of Duisburg-Essen. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Curriculum vitae of Jürgen Herzog" (PDF). unibuc.ro. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Bruns, Wilfried; Conca, Aldo. "Jürgen Herzog (1941-2024)". Commalg.org.
  4. ^ Bruns, Winfried; Conca, Aldo; Welker, Volkmar; Yassemi, Siamak (2013). "Preface: Special issue in honor of Jürgen Herzog on the occasion of his 70th birthday". J. Commut. Algebra. 5 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1216/JCA-2013-5-1-1.
  5. ^ Jürgen Herzog at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Kohlhaase, Jan. "Obituary on Prof. Dr. Jürgen Herzog". Universität Duisburg-Essen.
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