Bernhard Neumann
Bernhard Neumann | |
|---|---|
Outer billiard Absolute presentation of a group | |
| Awards | Adams Prize (1952) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Australian National University University of Manchester |
| Doctoral advisor | Issai Schur Philip Hall |
| Doctoral students | Gilbert Baumslag John Britton James Wiegold |
Bernhard Hermann Neumann
Early life and education
After gaining a D.Phil. from
In 1962 he migrated to Australia to take up the Foundation Chair of the Department of Mathematics within the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University (ANU), where he served as head of the department until retiring in 1975.[4] In addition he was a senior research fellow at the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics from 1975 to 1977 and then honorary research fellow from 1978 until his death in 2002.
His wife, Hanna Neumann, and sons, Peter M. Neumann and Walter Neumann, are also notable for their contributions to group theory.
He was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1936 at Oslo[5] and in 1970 at Nice. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1959.[1] In 1994, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).[6]
The Australian Mathematical Society awards a student prize named in his honour.[7] The group-theoretic notion of HNN (Higman-Neumann-Neumann) extension bears the names of Bernard and his wife Hanna, from their joint paper with Graham Higman (who later supervised the PhD of their son Peter).
Career
- Assistant lecturer, University College, Cardiff, 1937–40.
- Army Service, 1940–45.
- Lecturer, University College, Hull, (now University of Hull), 1946–48
- Lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, Manchester, 1948–61
- Professor and head of Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Emeritus Professor, 1975–2002.
- Senior research fellow, CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, 1975–77; honorary research fellow, 1978–99.
- Founding member of the World Cultural Council, 1981.[8]
Awards
- 1984 Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture
- 1952 Adams Prize, University of Cambridge
References
- ^ .
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Bernhard Neumann", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Bernhard Neumann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "ANU Department of Mathematics, Research School of Physical Sciences". Australian National University. n.d. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ Neumann, B. H. "Identical relations in groups" (PDF). In: Comptes Rendus du Congrès International des Mathématiciens, Oslo, 1936. Vol. 2. pp. 18–19.
- ^ It's an Honour: AC
- ^ "Aust MS : The Bernhard Neumann Prize".
- ^ "About Us". World Cultural Council. Retrieved 8 November 2016.