Eckart Viehweg

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Eckart Viehweg was a German mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebraic geometry, particularly in the theory of moduli spaces and vanishing theorems.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
almaMater University of Bonn
awardReceived Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 1996
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
coAuthor Christopher Hacon
Fedor Bogomolov
Hans Grauert
Kang Zuo
Michael Schneider
Shigefumi Mori
Stefan Kebekus
Yujiro Kawamata
countryOfBirth Germany
countryOfCitizenship Germany
dateOfBirth 1948-12-30
dateOfDeath 2010-01-29
doctoralAdvisor Friedrich Hirzebruch
employer University of Duisburg-Essen
familyName Viehweg
fieldOfWork algebraic geometry
mathematics
genre research article
givenName Eckart
influenced development of moduli theory for canonically polarized varieties
research in higher-dimensional algebraic geometry
knownFor Viehweg’s weak positivity theorem
theory of moduli spaces
vanishing theorems in algebraic geometry
work on moduli of canonically polarized varieties
languageSpoken English
German
mainResearchInterest birational geometry
moduli of higher-dimensional varieties
positivity of direct image sheaves
memberOf German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
name Eckart Viehweg
nationality German
notableStudent Christopher Hacon
Stefan Kebekus
notableWork Canonical divisors and the additivity of the Kodaira dimension for morphisms of relative dimension one
Quasi-projective moduli for polarized manifolds
Weak positivity and the additivity of the Kodaira dimension for certain fibre spaces
occupation university teacher
placeOfBirth Zerbst
placeOfDeath Essen
positionHeld professor of mathematics
workLocation Essen

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