Mathematician:Heinz Hopf

Mathematician

German mathematician who worked on the fields of topology and geometry.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 19 November 1894 in Gräbschen (near Breslau), Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)
• Died: 3 June 1971 in Zollikon, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

• Hopf Algebra
• Hopf Fibration
• Hopf Invariant
• Hopf Link
• Hopf Manifold
• Hopf Map
• Hopf Soliton
• Hopf Surface
• H-Space

• Hopf Theorem
• Hopf Conjecture

• Hopf-Rinow Theorem (with Willi Ludwig August Rinow)
• Killing-Hopf Theorem (with Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing)
• Poincaré-Hopf Theorem (with Jules Henri Poincaré)

Results named for Heinz Hopf can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Heinz Hopf can be found here.

Publications

• 1926: Zum Clifford-Kleinschen Raumproblem (Math. Ann. Vol. 95, no. 1: pp. 313 – 339)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Heinz Hopf": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive