Heinz Otto Cordes worked in mathematics at a period when the field's own foundations were under discussion.
The record lists Heinz Otto Cordes as German-American mathematician.
Heinz Otto Cordes was born in 1925. His recorded nationality is Germany. He studied at University of Göttingen.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at University of California, Berkeley.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics.
A theorem is permanent in a way no experiment can be, which raises the standard for entry.
That the work was done from Germany matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Heinz Otto Cordes died in 2018, aged 93. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of California, Berkeley
- Fields: mathematics
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