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