German mathematician (born 1949) Werner Müller.

Werner Müller (born 7 September 1949) is a German mathematician. His research focuses on global *ysis and automorphic forms.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Important Papers
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

Werner Müller grew up in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). He studied mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin in East Berlin. In 1977 he completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Herbert Kurke. In his thesis, *ytische Torsion Riemannscher Mannigfaltigkeiten, he solved, at the same time as but independently of Jeff Cheeger, the Ray–Singer conjecture on the equality between *ytic torsion and Reidemeister torsion. Thereafter he moved to the Karl-Weierstraß-Ins*ut für Mathematik of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. After the reunion of Germany he spent some time at the Max Planck Ins*ute for Mathematics in Bonn. Since 1994 he is Professor at the Mathematics Ins*ute of the University of Bonn.He is the successor on the chair of Friedrich Hirzebruch. He has supervised 12 doctoral students, including Maryna Viazovska.

Together with Jeff Cheeger, he has been awarded the Max-Planck-Forschungspreis in 1991. The Cheeger–Müller theorem on the *ytic torsion of Riemannian manifolds is named after them.

Important Papers

• *ytic torsion and R {displaystyle R} -torsion of Riemannian manifolds, Advances in Mathematics 28 (1978), no. 3, 233—305.
• The trace cl* conjecture in the theory of automorphic forms, Annals of Mathematics (2) 130 (1989), no. 3, 473—529.

References

External links

• —Conference in honor of his 60. birthday at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn
• —Conference in honor of his 60. birthday at the Hebrew University Jerusalem
• Personal Homepage, Bonn University
• Werner Müller at the Mathematics Genealogy Project