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Life and Work of Friedrich Hirzebruch

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Friedrich Hirzebruch, who died in 2012 at the age of 84, was one of the most important German mathematicians of the twentieth century. In this article we try to give a fairly detailed picture of his life and of his many mathematical achievements, as well as of his role in reshaping German mathematics after the Second World War.

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  1. A wonderful exposition of Hirzebruch’s work on singularities was given by Brieskorn in [9].

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Zagier, D. Life and Work of Friedrich Hirzebruch. Jahresber. Dtsch. Math. Ver. 117, 93–132 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1365/s13291-015-0114-1

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