Walter Borho
Walter Borho is a German mathematician, who works on algebra and number theory.
Borho received his PhD in 1973 from the University of Hamburg under the direction of Ernst Witt with thesis Wesentliche ganze Erweiterungen kommutativer Ringe. He is a professor at the University of Wuppertal.
Borho does research on representation theory, Lie algebras, ring theory and also on number theory and tilings.
In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley.Publications
- Borho, Don Zagier et al.: Lebendige Zahlen, Birkhäuser 1981
- with Peter Gabriel, Rudolf Rentschler: Primideale in Einhüllenden auflösbarer Lie-Algebren, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 357, 1973
- with Klaus Bongartz, D. Mertens, A. Steins: Farbige Parkette. Mathematische Theorie und Ausführung auf dem Computer , Birkhäuser 1988
- with Jean-Luc Brylinski, Robert MacPherson: Nilpotent orbits, primitive ideals and characteristic classes. A geometric perspective in ring theory, Birkhäuser 1989
- with Karsten Blankenagel, Axel vom Stein:
