Peter M. Gruber

mathematician

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

Peter M. Gruber

Career change

From 1971, he was Professor at the University of Linz, and from 1976, at the TU Wien.[1] He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,[1][4] a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,[1][5] and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[1][6]

Death change

Gruber died on 7 March 2017 in Vienna, Austria, aged 75.

Works change

  • Gruber, P.M. (2007). Convex and Discrete Geometry. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  • Gruber, P.M.; Lekkerkerker, C.G. (1987). Geometry of Numbers. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Related pages change

References change

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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. 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. "Peter M. Gruber". Austrian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2005-08-02. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  5. "Gruber, Peter Manfred". Russian Academy of Sciences.
  6. "Korrespondierende Mitglieder" (in German). Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Archived from the original on 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2017-03-14.