Dieter Puppe
Siegmund Dieter Puppe was a German mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, differential topology and homological algebra. He is known for the Puppe sequence in algebraic topology.
Life
Dieter Puppe was born the son of the lawyer Siegmund Puppe. The mathematician Volker Puppe and the legal scholar Ingeborg Puppe were his siblings. From 1948 he studied physics and mathematics in University of Göttingen and from 1951 at Heidelberg University. In 1954 he received his doctorate under Herbert Seifert. From 1951 he was an assistant in Heidelberg and after his habilitation in 1957, a lecturer. In 1960 he became a professor in Saarbrücken. In 1968 he returned to Heidelberg, where he stayed until his retirement in 1996, apart from guest stays at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1957/58, in Chicago in 1961, and in Minneapolis in 1966/67.Puppe worked on knot theory and homotopy theory.
From 1972 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm.
His students included Tammo tom Dieck, Hans-Werner Henn, and Rudolf Fritsch.
Works
- with Hans-Berndt Brinkmann: Kategorien und Funktoren. Springer, Berlin u. a. 1966.
- Stabile Homotopietheorie I. In: Mathematische Annalen. Bd. 169, Nr. 2, 1967, .
- Einhängungssätze im Aufbau der Homotopietheorie. In: Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. Bd. 71, 1969, .
- with Hans-Berndt Brinkmann: Abelsche und exakte Kategorien, Korrespondenzen. Springer, Berlin u. a. 1969.
- with Tammo tom Dieck, Klaus Heiner Kamps: Homotopietheorie. Springer, Berlin u. a. 1970, .
- with Hans-Werner Henn: Algebraische Topologie. In: Gerd Fischer, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Winfried Scharlau, Willi Törnig : Ein Jahrhundert Mathematik 1890–1990. Festschrift zum Jubiläum des DMV. Vieweg, Braunschweig u. a. 1990,, S. 673–716.
Literature
- In: Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon. Bd. 3, Heidelberg 2009, S. 476.