The parallel worlds of number theory
Date
2013-08
Authors
Breuer, Florian
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Publisher
Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
Florian Breuer was born in 1977 in Vienna, Austria, to German
parents and moved to Stellenbosch at the age of 4, where
he grew up and completed his undergraduate studies at Stellenbosch
University in 1998. He then moved to Paris on
a French Government Scholarship, where he completed his
Ph.D. in 2002 at the Universit e Denis Diderot under supervision
of Marc Hindry.
After postdoctoral positions at the National Center for
Theoretical Sciences in Hsinchu, Taiwan (2003) and at
the Max-Planck-Institut f ur Mathematik in Bonn, Germany
(2004), he returned to Stellenbosch University as a Senior Lecturer
in July 2004.
He was promoted to Associate Professor in October 2007, and to Professor in January
2013. He serves as the head of the Mathematics Division in the Department of Mathematical
Sciences since 2012.
In 2007 Florian was awarded the Meiring-Naud e Medal by the Royal Society of South
Africa, and in 2009 he spent six months at the University of Kassel, Germany and at the
ETH-Z urich, Switzerland, with an Alexander-von-Humboldt-Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.
In 2011 Florian was invited onto the editorial board of the Journal of Number Theory
and in 2013 he was featured amongst the Mail&Guardian's \200 Young South Africans".
Florian is particularly proud of the fact that for the last three years, a top rst-year student
has nominated him as his most inspiring lecturer at the First Year Academy's Prestige Dinner.
In his spare time, Florian is an award-winning landscape photographer. He lives in Stellenbosch
and is married to Erica Breuer.
Description
Inaugural lecture delivered on 15 August 2013
Keywords
Number theory
Citation
Breuer, F. 2013. The parallel worlds of number theory. Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, South Africa.