Andreas Dress | |
Birth Date: | 1938 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Berlin, Germany |
Thesis Title: | Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen |
Thesis Year: | 1962 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Friedrich Bachmann |
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Andreas Dress (26 August 1938 – 23 February 2024) was a German mathematician specialising in geometry, combinatorics and mathematical biology.
Dress earned his PhD from the University of Kiel in 1962, under the supervision of Friedrich Bachmann and Karl-Heinrich Weise. His thesis is entitled Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen.
Dress was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld beginning in 1969.[1] He was the first director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.[2] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[3]
Dress died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 85.[2]