Heinz Hopf

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Heinz Hopf was a German mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to topology, including the Hopf fibration and Hopf invariant.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
topologist
awardReceived Lobachevsky Prize
National Medal of Science
surface form: National Medal of Science (USA) (shared in topology context)
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1894-11-19
dateOfDeath 1971-06-03
doctoralAdvisor Erhard Schmidt NERFINISHED
Hermann Weyl
educatedAt University of Breslau
University of Göttingen
employer ETH Zurich
University of Berlin NERFINISHED
familyName Hopf
fieldOfWork algebraic topology
differential geometry
topology
givenName Heinz
memberOf Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
surface form: German Mathematical Society

Swiss Mathematical Society
notableIdea classification of maps from S^3 to S^2 via Hopf invariant
early development of homotopy theory
introduction of Hopf invariant
work on Riemannian geometry and geodesics
work on fiber bundles
notablePublication "Topologie" (with W. Hurewicz)
"Vorlesungen über Differentialgeometrie"
"Über die Abbildungen der dreidimensionalen Sphäre auf die Kugelfläche" (1931)
notableStudent Beno Eckmann
Heinz Rutishauser
surface form: Eduard Stiefel

Friedrich Hirzebruch
Georges de Rham
Hans Samelson
Hassler Whitney
notableWork Hopf algebra (concept named after him)
Hopf conjecture (on Euler characteristic and curvature)
Hopf invariant
surface form: Hopf degree theorem

Hopf fibration
Hopf invariant
Hopf–Rinow theorem
placeOfBirth Gräbschen
Province of Silesia
near Breslau
placeOfDeath Switzerland
Zurich
surface form: Zürich
positionHeld professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich
sexOrGender male

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