Bernd Sturmfels
Bernd Sturmfels (born March 28, 1962 in Kassel, West Germany) is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Education and career
He received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Washington and the Technische Universität Darmstadt. After two postdoctoral years at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation in Linz, Austria, he taught at Cornell University, before joining UC Berkeley in 1995.
Contributions
Bernd Sturmfels has made contributions to a variety of areas of mathematics, including algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, discrete geometry, Gröbner bases, T-theory, toric varieties, tropical geometry, algebraic statistics, and computational biology.
Awards and honors
Sturmfels' honors include a National Young Investigator Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[1]
Selected publications
- Ezra Miller, Bernd Sturmfels, Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 227, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. ISBN 0-387-22356-8
References
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-05.
Further reading
- Gallian, Joe; Ivars Peterson (January 2008). ""Mathematicians Have a Different Perspective": An Interview with Bernd Sturmfels" (PDF). MAA FOCUS (Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America) 28 (1): 4–7. ISSN 0731-2040. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
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