Joachim Schwermer (26 May 1950, Kulmbach^[1]) is a German mathematician, specializing in number theory.

Education[edit]

Schwermer received his Abitur in 1969 at Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg and then studied mathematics at the University of Bonn.^{[citation needed]} After graduating in 1974 with his Diplom, he received in 1977 his Promotion (Ph.D.) underi Günter Harder with thesis Eisensteinreihen und die Kohomologie von Kongruenzuntergruppen von .^[2] In 1982 he received his Habilitation from the University of Bonn.

Career[edit]

From 1986 he was a professor at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, then at the University of Düsseldorf,^[3] and finally in the 2000s at the University of Vienna. During the academic year 1980–1981 Schwermer was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is the scientific director at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics.

Research[edit]

Schwermer's research deals with algebraic groups in number theory, arithmetic geometry, Lie groups, and L-functions. He has written essays on the history of mathematics, for example, about Helmut Hasse, Hermann Minkowski, and Emil Artin.

Awards and honors[edit]

In 1987 he was awarded the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize.

Selected publications[edit]

• with Della Dumbaugh, Emil Artin and Beyond – Class Field Theory and L-Functions, Heritage of European Mathematics, European Mathematical Society, 2015, ISBN 978-3037191460
• with Jens Carsten Jantzen: Algebra, Springer, 2006, ISBN 3540213805, doi:10.1007/3-540-29287-X
• Kohomologie arithmetisch definierter Gruppen und Eisensteinreihen, Springer, Lectures Notes in Mathematics Bd.988, 1983, ISBN 9783540122920, doi:10.1007/BFb0070268
• as editor with Jean-Pierre Labesse: Cohomology of arithmetic groups and automorphic forms, Springer, 1990, Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Konferenz Luminy/Marseille 1989), doi:10.1007/BFb0085723
• as editor with Catherine Goldstein and Norbert Schappacher: The Shaping of Arithmetic after C. F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Springer 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-20441-1 (containing Schwermer's essay Reduction theory of quadratic forms: towards räumliche Anschauung in Minkowski's Early Work , doi:10.1007/978-3-540-34720-0_18, and his essay, with Della Fenster, Composition of Quadratic Forms: An Algebraic Perspective, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-34720-0_5)
• Minkowski, Hensel, and Hasse: On The Beginnings of the Local-Global Principle, in Jeremy Gray, Karen Parshall: Episodes in the history of modern algebra (1800-1950), American Mathematical Society 2007
• Über Reziprozitätsgesetze in der Zahlentheorie, in Horst Knörrer (ed.): Arithmetik und Geometrie, Mathematische Miniaturen, vol. 3, Birkhäuser Verlag 1986, ISBN 3-7643-1759-0, doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-5226-5_2

External links[edit]

• Literature by and about Joachim Schwermer in the German National Library catalogue
• Homepage at the University of Vienna

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