Albrecht DOLD

Address:

Institute of Mathematics
University of Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 288
69120 Heidelberg
Germany

Phone: (49) 6221-56 5764
Fax: (49) 6221 56 3812
E-Mail: weber@harmless.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de

Born:

August 5, 1928, Triberg, Germany

Education:

1948 - 1954 Studies of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, University of Heidelberg
1954 Ph.D., University of Heidelberg

Positions:

1954 - 1956 Assistant, Institute of Mathematics, University of Heidelberg
1956 - 1958 Assistant, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
1958 - 1960 Lecturer, Institute of Mathematics, University of Heidelberg
1960 - 1962 Professor, Columbia University, New York
1962 - 1963 Full Professor, University of Zürich
1963 - Full Professor, University of Heidelberg
1995 - 1998 Vice-President, International Mathematical Union

Selected Awards, Honours and Distinctions:

1974 Member Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
1983 Honorary Doctorate conveyed by Faculty of Economics, University of Karlsruhe
1985 Member Dt. Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

Research Interests:

Algebraic Topology

Selected Publications:

1. Quasifaserungen und unendliche symmetrische Produkte.
   Annals of Math. vol. 67, 239-281. (with R. Thom)

2. Homologie nicht additiver Funktoren. Anwendungen (with D. Puppe)
   Annales de L'Institute Fourier, IX (1961), 201-312

3. Ueber die Steenrodschen Kohomologieoperationen.
   Annals of Math. 73 (1961), 258-294.

4. Partitions of unity in the theory of fibrations.
   Annals of Math. 78 (1963), 223-255 (s. auch Proc. Int'l Math. Congr. 1962,459-461).

5. Chern classes in general cohomology.
   INDAM Symposia Math. V (1970) 385-410.

6. Lectures on Algebraic Topology, 377 pp.
   Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 1972. 2nd edition 1980 and 1995.

7. The Fixed Point Transfer of Fibre-Preserving Maps.
   Math. Z. 148 (1976) 215-244.

8. Fixed point indices of Iterated Maps.
   Invent.math. 74 (1983) 419-435.