Andreas Dress

Andreas Dress
Dress in 1976
Born	(1938-08-26)26 August 1938 Berlin, Germany
Died	23 February 2024(2024-02-23) (aged 85)
Alma mater	University of Kiel (PhD)
Scientific career
Institutions	Institute for Advanced Study[1][2] University of Bielefeld
Thesis	Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen  (1962)
Doctoral advisor	Friedrich Bachmann
Doctoral students	Arndt von Haeseler Katharina T. Huber

Andreas Dress (26 August 1938 – 23 February 2024) was a German mathematician specialising in geometry, combinatorics and mathematical biology.

Biography

Dress earned his PhD from the University of Kiel in 1962, under the supervision of Friedrich Bachmann and Karl-Heinrich Weise. His thesis is entitled Konstruktion metrischer Ebenen.[3]

Dress was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld beginning in 1969.[2] He was the first director of the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.[4] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[5]

Dress died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 85.[4]

See also

• Split networks
• SplitsTree
• T-theory
• Tight span

References

1. "Welcome to PICB Shanghai !". PICB website. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
2. "Andreas Dress". Institute for Advanced Study. 31 August 1974. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
3. Andreas Dress at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. "Obituary | We mourn the loss of our external scientific member Andreas Dress". Max Planck Institute. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
5. Dress, Andreas; Terhalle, Werner (1998). "The tree of life and other affine buildings". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 565–574.