Kurt Strebel


Kurt Strebel was a Swiss mathematician, specializing in geometric function theory.

Education and career

Strebel received in 1953 his PhD from the University of Zurich under Rolf Nevanlinna with thesis Über das Kreisnormierungsproblem der konformen Abbildung. From 1953 to 1955 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and at Stanford University. He became a professor at the University of Fribourg in 1955 and then successor to Nevanlinna at the University of Zurich in 1963.
Strebel founded the Nevanlinna Colloquium in Zurich with another of Nevanlinna's former students, the professor Hans Künzi, to maintain contacts with Nevanlinna. The Nevanlinna Colloquium is usually held in Europe and covers most of classical complex analysis.
In 1977 Strebel was elected a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1974 in Vancouver.
Named in his honor is the Strebel differential in the Teichmüller theory.

Strebel differential

Selected publications

Books