Wolf Barth Explained

Wolf Paul Barth (20 October 1942, in Wernigerode – 30 December 2016, in Nuremberg) was a German mathematician who discovered Barth surfaces and whose work on vector bundles has been important for the ADHM construction.^{[1] [2]} Until 2011 Barth was working in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.

Barth received a PhD degree in 1967 from the University of Göttingen. His dissertation, written under the direction of Reinhold Remmertand Hans Grauert, was entitled Einige Eigenschaften analytischer Mengen in kompakten komplexen Mannigfaltigkeiten (Some properties of analytic sets in compact, complex manifolds).

Publications

• Barth . Wolf . Moduli of vector bundles on the projective plane . . 42 . 1 . 1977 . 10.1007/bf01389784 . 1977InMat..42...63B . 63–91 . 0460330. 121360092 .
• Barth . Wolf . Some properties of stable rank-2 vector bundles on P_n . . 226 . 2 . 1977 . 10.1007/bf01360864 . 125–150 . 0429896. 121286408 .
• Barth . Wolf . 1 . Journal of Algebraic Geometry . 1358040 . 173–186 . Two projective surfaces with many nodes, admitting the symmetries of the icosahedron . 5 . 1996.

See also

• Barth surfaces
• Barth–Nieto quintic

External links

• Web site: Author profile. At zbMATH.

Notes and References

1. Bauer . Thomas . Hulek . Klaus . Klaus Hulek. Rams . Sławomir . Sarti . Alessandra . Alessandra Sarti . Szemberg . Tomasz . Wolf Barth (1942–2016) . Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung . 119 . 4 . 2017 . 1704.07446. 10.1365/s13291-017-0164-7 . 2017arXiv170407446B . 273–292 . 3709976. 119135970 .
2. Atiyah . Michael Francis . Michael Atiyah . Hitchin . Nigel J. . Nigel Hitchin. Drinfeld . Vladimir G. . Vladimir Drinfeld. Manin . Yuri Ivanovich . Yuri Ivanovich Manin . Construction of instantons . 10.1016/0375-9601(78)90141-X . 1978PhLA...65..185A . 598562 . 1978 . Physics Letters A . 65 . 3 . 185–187.