Heiner Zieschang Explained

Heiner Zieschang (12 November 1936 in Kiel – 5 April 2004 in Bochum) was a German mathematician. He was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum from 1968 till 2002. He was a topologist. In 1996 he was an honorary doctor of University of Toulouse and in 1997 he was an honorary professor of Moscow State University.

Literature

• Heiner Zieschang: Flächen und ebene diskontinuierliche Gruppen. Berlin 1970,
• Heiner Zieschang: On decompositions of discontinuous groups of the plane. Math. Zeit. 151 (1976), 165-188
• Heiner Zieschang; Elmar Vogt; Hans-Dieter Coldewey: Surfaces and planar discontinuous groups, Berlin 1980 ^[1]
• Heiner Zieschang: Finite groups of mapping classes of surfaces. Berlin 1981,
• Gerhard Burde; Heiner Zieschang: Knots, Berlin [u.a.] 1985 ;^[2] Book: 2nd edition, revised and expanded. 2003. ^[3]
• Ralph Stöcker; Heiner Zischang: Algebraische Topologie. Teubner, Stuttgart 1988,
• Heiner Zieschang: Lineare Algebra und Geometrie. Stuttgart 1997,
• Boto v. Querenburg: Mengentheoretische Topologie. 3. Auflage. Springer, Berlin 2001,

External links

• Ruhr-Universität trauert um Prof. Heiner Zieschang
• Heiner Zieschang – his life and work
• Zieschang Gedenkschrift, G&T Monograph dedicated to Heiner Zieschang

Notes and References

1. Gilman, Jane. Jane Piore Gilman. Review: Surfaces and planar discontinuous groups by Heiner Zieschang, Elmar Vogt, and Hans-Dieter Coldewey. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1983. 9. 2. 256–259. 10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15176-5. free.
2. Birman, Joan S.. Joan Birman. Review: Knots by Gerhard Burde and Heiner Zieschang; On knots by Louis H. Kauffman. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 19. 2. 550–558. 10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15740-0. free.
3. Silver, Daniel S.. Review: Knots by G. Burde and H. Zieschang; Algebraic invariants of links by Jonathan Silverman. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 41. 1. 135–147. 10.1090/s0273-0979-03-01000-0. free.