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Walter Borho

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Walter Borho (born 17 December 1945, in Hamburg) is a German mathematician, who works on algebra and number theory. He is a professor at the University of Wuppertal.

Education

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Borho received his PhD in 1973 from the University of Hamburg under the direction of Ernst Witt with a thesis titled Wesentliche ganze Erweiterungen kommutativer Ringe.[1]

Research

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Borho's research focuses on representation theory, Lie algebras, ring theory and also on number theory (amicable numbers) and tilings.

Awards and honors

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In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley (Nilpotent orbits, primitive ideals and characteristic classes – a survey).

Selected publications

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  • Borho, Walter (1972). "On Thabit ibn Kurrah's formula for amicable numbers". Math. Comp. 26 (118): 571–578. doi:10.2307/2005185. JSTOR 2005185. MR 0313177.
  • Borho, Don Zagier et al.: Lebendige Zahlen, Birkhäuser 1981 (containing Borho's Befreundete Zahlen [Amicable Numbers])
  • with Peter Gabriel, Rudolf Rentschler: Primideale in Einhüllenden auflösbarer Lie-Algebren, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 357, 1973[2]
  • with Klaus Bongartz, D. Mertens, A. Steins: Farbige Parkette. Mathematische Theorie und Ausführung auf dem Computer [Colored tilings: mathematical theory and computer implementation], Birkhäuser 1988
  • with Jean-Luc Brylinski, Robert MacPherson: Nilpotent orbits, primitive ideals and characteristic classes. A geometric perspective in ring theory, Birkhäuser 1989
  • with Karsten Blankenagel, Axel vom Stein: Blankenagel, Karsten; Borho, Walter; Vom Stein, Axel (2003). "New amicable four-cycles". Math. Comp. 72 (244): 2071–2076. doi:10.1090/s0025-5718-03-01489-3. MR 1986823.

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