Peter M. Gruber

Peter Manfred Gruber (28 August 1941, Klagenfurt – 7 March 2017, Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician working in geometric number theory[1] as well as in convex and discrete geometry.[2][3]

Biography

Gruber obtained his PhD at the University of Vienna in 1966, under the supervision of Nikolaus Hofreiter.[4] From 1971, he was Professor at the University of Linz, and from 1976, at the TU Wien.[1] He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,[1][5] a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,[1][6] and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[1][7]

His past doctoral students include Monika Ludwig.[4]

Selected publications

Decorations and awards

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Zong, Chuanming (2009). "Geometry of Numbers in Vienna". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 31 (3): 25–31. doi:10.1007/s00283-009-9042-1. S2CID 122537208.
  2. ^ a b 2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-11-04.
  3. ^ "Peter M. Gruber – ein Nachruf". tuwien.ac.at. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b Peter M. Gruber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "Peter M. Gruber". Austrian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2005-08-02.
  6. ^ "Gruber, Peter Manfred". Russian Academy of Sciences.
  7. ^ "Korrespondierende Mitglieder" (in German). Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  8. ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1396. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1840. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
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