T. A. Springer

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T. A. Springer
T. A. Springer, 1973 in Erlangen
Born(1926-02-13)13 February 1926
Died7 December 2011(2011-12-07) (aged 85)
Zeist
NationalityDutch
Alma materLeiden University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUtrecht University
Doctoral advisorHendrik Kloosterman
Doctoral studentsGerrit van Dijk
Wilberd van der Kallen
Marc van Leeuwen

Tonny Albert Springer (13 February 1926 – 7 December 2011) was a

Springer representations and the Springer resolution
.

Springer began his undergraduate studies in 1945 at

University of Paris VI
.

In 1964 Springer was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2] In 2006 in Madrid he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians with lecture on Some results on compactifications of semisimple groups. (At the 1962 ICM in Stockholm he made a short contribution Twisted composition algebras, but was not an invited speaker.)

Publications

  • Springer, Tonny A. (1998), Jordan Algebras and Algebraic Groups, Classics in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Reprint of the 1973 edition.
  • Springer, Tonny A.; Veldkamp, Ferdinand D. (2000), Octonions, Jordan Algebras, and Exceptional Groups, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Berlin: Springer,
  • Springer, Tonny A. (1998), Linear algebraic groups (2nd ed.), Birkhäuser,
    ISBN 978-0-8176-4021-7; 1st edition. 1981.[3]
  • Springer, Tonny A. (1977), Invariant theory, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 585, Springer-Verlag[4]

References