Günther Frei

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Günther Frei (left) with John Milnor, Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Albrecht Dold, Zürich 2007

Günther Hans Frei (born 19 May 1942 in St. Gallen) is a Swiss mathematician and historian of mathematics.

Education and career[]

Frei studied mathematics, physics and languages at the University of Zurich. There he received his doctoral degree in 1968 with advisor Bartel Leendert van der Waerden and dissertation on geometry (Beiträge zur axiomatischen Inhaltstheorie). He became an instructor in 1968 at the University of Notre Dame and in 1970 at Quebec's Université Laval, where he became in 1971 a professor. He remained there until he retired as professor emeritus and returned to Switzerland to live in Hombrechtikon.

Frei's research deals with number theory and the history of mathematics, especially the history of number theory in the 19th and 20th centuries and Swiss mathematics. He has written extensively on the life and work of Helmut Hasse. Frei is a member of the Euler Committee of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications[]

References[]

  1. ^ Sigurdsson, Skúli (2000). "Review of Hermann Weyl und die Mathematik an der ETH Zurich, 1913-1930. von Gunther Frei , Urs Stammbach". Isis. 91 (4): 810–811. doi:10.1086/385001. ISSN 0021-1753.
  2. ^ Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (7 July 2014). "Review: Emil Artin and Helmut Hasse: The Correspondence 1923–1958 edited by Guunter Frei, Franz Lemmermeyer, and Peter J. Roquette". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.

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