Wolf Barth (1942--2016)
History and Overview
2017-04-26 v1 Algebraic Geometry
Complex Variables
Abstract
In this article we describe the life and work of Wolf Barth who died on 30th December 2016. Wolf Barth's contributions to algebraic variety span a wide range of subjects. His achievements range from what is now called the Barth-Lefschetz theorems to his fundamental contributions to the theory of algebraic surfaces and moduli of vector bundles, and include his later work on algebraic surfaces with many singularities, culminating in the famous Barth sextic.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1704.07446,
title = {Wolf Barth (1942--2016)},
author = {Thomas Bauer and Klaus Hulek and Slawomir Rams and Alessandra Sarti and Tomasz Szemberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07446},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
accepted for publication in Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, obituary, 17 pages, 2 figures, 1 photo