Peter Slodowy

Peter Slodowy (12 October 1948, in Leverkusen – 19 November 2002, in Bonn) was a German mathematician who worked on singularity theory and algebraic geometry.

He completed his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Regensburg in 1978 under the direction of Theodor Bröcker and Egbert Brieskorn. The Slodowy correspondence is named after him.

Publications[edit]

• Slodowy, Peter (1980), Simple singularities and simple algebraic groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 815, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0090294, ISBN 978-3-540-10026-3, MR 0584445

References[edit]

• Peter Slodowy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Hirzebruch, Friedrich (2004), "Traueransprache für Peter Slodowy, 27. November 2002", Geometry and topology of caustics---CAUSTICS '02 (PDF), Banach Center Publ., vol. 62, Warsaw: Polish Acad. Sci., pp. 13–17, MR 2055866

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