Gerhard Ringel
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Gerhard Ringel is a mathematician who contributed significantly toward the solution of the Heawood conjecture. He earned his Ph.D. at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1951.
Gerhard Ringel spent much of his career at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he also spent time surfing and collecting butterflies.