Helga Baum

Helga Baum
Helga Baum in 2007.
Born
Helga Dlubek

1954
German
Alma materHumboldt University of Berlin
Occupation(s)mathematician, professor

Helga Baum (née Dlubek, born 1954)[1] is a German mathematician. She is professor for differential geometry and global analysis in the Institute for Mathematics of the Humboldt University of Berlin.[2]

Education

Baum earned a doctorate (Dr. sc. nat.) in mathematics in 1980 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her dissertation, Spin-Strukturen und Dirac-Operatoren über Pseudoriemannschen Mannigfaltigkeiten, was supervised by Thomas Friedrich [de].[3]

Books

Baum is the author or coauthor of several books, including:

  • Conformal differential geometry: Q-curvature and conformal holonomy, with Andreas Juhl, Birkhäuser, 2010[4]
  • Eichfeldtheorie: Eine Einführung in die Differentialgeometrie auf Faserbündeln [Gauge theory: An introduction into differential geometry on fibre bundles] (Springer, 2009; 2nd ed., 2014)[5]
  • Twistor and Killing spinors on Riemannian manifolds, with Thomas Friedrich, Ralf Grunewald, and Ines Kath, Teubner, 1991[6]
  • Spin-Strukturen und Dirac-Operatoren über pseudoriemannschen Mannigfaltigkeiten [Spin structures and Dirac operators on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds], Teubner, 1981[7]

References

  1. ^ Birth name and year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 21 April 2020
  2. ^ Prof. Dr. Helga Baum (i.R.), Institute for Mathematics, Humboldt University of Berlin, retrieved 2020-04-21
  3. ^ Helga Baum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Reviews of Conformal differential geometry: Andreas Cap, MR2598414; Cornelia-Livia Bejan, Zbl 1189.53045
  5. ^ Reviews of Eichfeldtheorie: Thomas Püttmann, Zbl 1175.53001; Vladimir Balan, Zbl 1297.53001
  6. ^ Review of Twistor and Killing spinors on Riemannian manifolds: N. J. Hitchin, MR1084369
  7. ^ Reviews of Spin-Strukturen und Dirac-Operatoren über pseudoriemannschen Mannigfaltigkeiten: Jürgen Eichhorn, MR0701244; Bernd Wegner, Zbl 0519.53054