Susanne Dierolf (16 July 1942 – 24 April 2009)[1] was a German mathematician specializing in the theory of topological vector spaces.[2] She was a professor for many years at the University of Trier.[3]

Life

Dierolf was born on 16 July 1942[1] in Bratislava, at the time under German occupation and administered as part of Lower Austria.[4]

She completed her doctorate in 1974 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, with the dissertation Über Vererbbarkeitseigenschaften in topologischen Vektorräumen supervised by Walter Roelcke.[5] She continued at Munich as an assistant, earning her habilitation there in 1985. She became a Privatdozent at Trier in 1985, and außerplanmäßiger Professor in 1991.[6]

She died on 24 April 2009.[1][3]

Research

Dierolf published 71 mathematics papers and was the advisor to ten doctoral students. Highlights of her research contributions include the solution of four problems of Alexander Grothendieck and of a conjecture of Dmitriĭ A. Raĭkov. Her work often involved the construction of counterexamples, for which she became known as "Mrs. Counterexample".[2]

Beyond the main part of her work on topological vector spaces, she was also a coauthor of a book on topological group theory, Uniform structures on topological groups and their quotients (with Walter Roelcke, McGraw-Hill, 1981).[7]

Recognition

A special volume of the journal Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici was published in Dierolf's memory in 2011.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bonet, Jose; Domański, Paweł (March 2011), "Susanne Dierolf (16.07.1942 – 24.04.2009)", Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici, 44 (1): 5–6
  2. 1 2 Frerick, Leonhard; Wengenroth, Jochen (March 2011), "The mathematical work of Susanne Dierolf", Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici, 44 (1): 7–31, doi:10.7169/facm/1301497744, MR 2807896
  3. 1 2 Wengenroth, J. (2009), "Im Garten der Mathematik: Ein Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Susanne Dierolf", Unijournal (in German), University of Trier (2): 68
  4. ↑ Birthplace from German National Library catalog, retrieved 2021-11-03
  5. ↑ Susanne Dierolf at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2021-12-03
  7. ↑ Reviews of Uniform structures on topological groups and their quotients: W. W. Comfort, MR0644485; B. Gelbaum, Zbl 0489.22001
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