Ernst Ruh

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Ernst Alfred Ruh (born 23 February 1936), is a Swiss mathematician, specializing in differential geometry.

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Ernst Ruh received his doctorate in 1964 from Brown University under Katsumi Nomizu with thesis On the Automorphism Groups of a G-structure. [1] He is a professor at Ohio State University and a professor of computer science at the University of Basel (1987/89). [2] In 1990 Ruh became a full professor (professor ordinarius) of mathematics at the University of Fribourg; he was the successor of Josef Schmid. [2] In 2006 he retired as professor emeritus.

His name is attached to the Gromov-Ruh theorem. [3] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Berkeley in 1986. He became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.

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References

  1. Ernst Ruh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. 1 2 Bruno Colbois, Christine Riedtmann, Viktor Schroeder: Math.ch/100, European Mathematical Society 2010, ISBN   3037190892, p. 347
  3. Ruh, Ernst A. (1982). "Almost flat manifolds". Journal of Differential Geometry. 17 (1): 1–14. doi: 10.4310/jdg/1214436698 . MR   0658470.