Andreas Dress
German mathematician (1938–2024)
- University of Kiel (PhD)
- Institute for Advanced Study[1][2]
- University of Bielefeld
- Arndt von Haeseler
- Katharina T. Huber
Andreas Dress (26 August 1938 – 23 February 2024) was a German mathematician specialising in geometry, combinatorics and mathematical biology.
Biography
Dress earned his PhD from the University of Kiel in 1962, under the supervision of Friedrich Bachmann and Karl-Heinrich Weise. His thesis is entitled Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen.[3]
Dress was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld beginning in 1969.[2] He was the first director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.[4] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[5]
Dress died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 85.[4]
See also
- Split networks
- SplitsTree
- T-theory
- Tight span
References
- ^ "Welcome to PICB Shanghai !". PICB website. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Andreas Dress". Institute for Advanced Study. 31 August 1974. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ Andreas Dress at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Obituary | We mourn the loss of our external scientific member Andreas Dress". Max Planck Institute. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ Dress, Andreas; Terhalle, Werner (1998). "The tree of life and other affine buildings". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 565–574.
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