Nationality Swiss Doctoral advisor Heinz Hopf Awards Albert Einstein Medal Alma mater ETH Zurich Children Jean-Pierre Eckmann | Institutions ETH Zurich Education ETH Zurich Fields Mathematics Name Beno Eckmann | |
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Born March 31, 1917
Bern ( 1917-03-31 ) Doctoral students Alfred Aeppli
Erwin Bolthausen
Alfred Frolicher
Hans Grauert
Peter J. Huber
Michel Kervaire
Ernst Specker
Urs Stammbach Died November 25, 2008, Zurich, Switzerland Books Collected Papers - Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Homotopie et cohomologie Similar People Heinz Hopf, Albrecht Dold, Hans Grauert, Heinrich Behnke | ||
Beno Eckmann (31 March 1917 – 25 November 2008 in Zurich) was a Swiss mathematician who was a student of Heinz Hopf.
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Life
Born in Bern, Eckmann received his master's degree from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH) in 1939. Later he studied there under Heinz Hopf, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1941. Eckmann was the 2008 recipient of the Albert Einstein Medal.
Legacy
Calabi–Eckmann manifolds, Eckmann–Hilton duality, the Eckmann–Hilton argument, and the Eckmann–Shapiro lemma are named after Eckmann.
Family
Eckmann's son is mathematical physicist Jean-Pierre Eckmann.
References
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