Horst Knörrer
Horst Knörrer is a German mathematician, who studies algebraic geometry and mathematical physics.
Knörrer studied from 1971 at University of Regensburg and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received a doctorate in 1978 from the
University of Bonn under the supervision of Egbert Brieskorn. After that, he was a research assistant until 1985 in Bonn, interrupted by two years 1980 to 1982 at the
Leiden University. In 1985 he completed his habilitation in Bonn and was a Heisenberg fellow the following two years. During 1986/87, he was a department representative at the University of Düsseldorf. Since 1987, he is a full professor of mathematics at the ETH Zurich.
Knörrer studies algebraic geometry and its connection to mathematical physics, for example, for integrable systems, as well as mathematical theory of many-particle systems in statistical mechanics and solid state physics. Together with Brieskorn, he wrote an extensive and rich
illustrated textbook on algebraic curves, which also was translated into English.Writings
- With Egbert Brieskorn: Ebene algebraische Kurven, Birkhäuser 1981
- Geometrie- ein Lehrbuch für Mathematik- und Physikstudierende, Vieweg/Teubner, 2. Auflage 2006,
- With Daniel Bättig: Singularitäten, Birkhäuser 1991
- With Joel Feldman, Eugene Trubowitz: Riemann Surfaces of Infinite Genus, AMS 2003
- With Feldman, Trubowitz: Fermionic functional integrals and the renormalization group, AMS 2002
- With D. Gieseker, Trubowitz: Geometry of algebraic Fermi curves, Academic Press 1992
- Integrable Hamiltonsche Systeme und Algebraische Geometrie, Jahresbericht Deutscher Mathematikerverein, Bd.88, 1986, S.82-103
