Jürgen Herzog
German mathematician (1941-2024) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jürgen Reinhard Gerhard Herzog (German: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; 21 December 1941 – 23 April 2024) was an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University of Duisburg-Essen, in Essen, Germany.[1] From 1969 to 1975, he was Lecturer at University of Regensburg and from 1975 to 2009 a professor of Mathematics at University of Duisburg-Essen.[2]
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 Herzog in 2019 | |
| Born | Jürgen Reinhard Gerhard Herzog 21 December 1941 Heidelberg, Germany |
| Died | 23 April 2024 (aged 82) |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University University of Regensburg Purdue University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernst A. Kunz |
| Website | Official page |
Biography
Herzog was born in Heidelberg on 21 December 1941 and raised in Eberbach.[2][3] After military service in the German Army, he enrolled at the University of Kiel from 1963[2] and began studying mathematics and physics. Herzog transferred to the University of Heidelberg in 1964, and completed his undergraduate studies there.[4] He received his Ph.D. with a thesis titled, Generators and Relations of Abelian Semigroups and Semigroup Rings at Louisiana State University in 1969 under the supervision of Ernst A. Kunz.[5] He completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg in 1974.[2] He was an expert in the field of commutative algebra and its interactions to other mathematical fields such as combinatorics.[3]
Personal life
Herzog died on 23 April 2024 in Germany, following a sudden heart attack.[6][3]
Selected publications
- Bruns, Winfred, Herzog, Jürgen, (1993). Cohen-Macaulay rings, Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics 39, Cambridge University Press.
- Herzog, Jürgen, Hibi, Takayuki, (2011). Monomial Ideals, Graduate Text in Mathematics.
- Ene, Viviana, Herzog, Jürgen, (2012). Gröbner Bases in Commutative Algebra, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 130. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI.
- Herzog, Jürgen, Hibi, Takayuki, Ohsugi, Hidefumi, (2018). Binomial Ideals, Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics.
References
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