Rolph Ludwig Edward Schwarzenberger

Summary

Rolph Ludwig Edward Schwarzenberger (7 February 1936 – 29 February 1992) was a British mathematician at the University of Warwick who worked on vector bundles (where he introduced jumping lines), crystallography, and mathematics education.

He was President of the Mathematical Association in 1983–1984.

Publications edit

  • Hirzebruch, Friedrich (1995) [1956], Schwarzenberger, R. L. E. (ed.), Topological methods in algebraic geometry, Classics in Mathematics, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-58663-0, MR 1335917 Schwarzenberger translated this book into English and added a long appendix on later developments.
  • Schwarzenberger, R. L. E. (1972), Topics in differential topology, Publications of the Ramanujan Institute, vol. 3, Ramanujan Institute, University of Madras, Madras, MR 0405443
  • Schwarzenberger, Rolf L. E. (1980), n-dimensional crystallography, Research Notes in Mathematics, vol. 41, Boston, Mass.: Pitman (Advanced Publishing Program), ISBN 978-0-8224-8468-4, MR 0586945
  • Schwarzenberger, R. L. E. (1984), "The importance of mistakes: the 1984 presidential address", The Mathematical Gazette, 68 (445): 159–172, doi:10.2307/3616337, ISSN 0025-5572, JSTOR 3616337, MR 0769804

References edit

  • Brown, Margaret (1993), "Rolph Schwarzenberger (1936–1992): An Appreciation", The Mathematical Gazette, 77 (478): 95–97, doi:10.1017/S0025557200152386, ISSN 0025-5572, JSTOR 3619271
  • "Obituary. Professor Rolph Schwarzenberger", International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 23 (2): 337, 1992, doi:10.1080/0020739920230217, ISSN 0020-739X, MR 1162426
  • Rolph Ludwig Edward Schwarzenberger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project