German mathematician
Kathrin Bringmann (born 8 May 1977) is a German number theorist in the University of Cologne , Germany , who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of mock theta functions .
Education and career
Kathrin Bringmann was born on 8 May 1977, in Muenster, Germany. She passed the State Examinations in Mathematics and Theology at the University of Würzburg , Germany, in 2002, and obtained a Diploma in Mathematics at Würzburg in 2003. She received PhD in 2004 from University of Heidelberg under the supervision of Winfried Kohnen [de ] .
During 2004–07, she was Edward Burr Van Vleck Assistant Professor with the University of Wisconsin where she began her collaboration with Ken Ono . After briefly serving as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota , she joined the University of Cologne , Germany, as Professor.
Recognition
Bringmann has been awarded the Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis for Young Professors, a one-million-Euro prize instituted by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation . She is the third mathematician to win this prize.[ 1] She has also been awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2009 for her contributions to "areas of mathematics influenced by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan ."[ 2] [ 3]
She was the Emmy Noether Lecturer of the German Mathematical Society in 2015.[ 4]
A book by Bringmann with Amanda Folsom , Ken Ono , and Larry Rolen, Harmonic Maass Forms and Mock Modular Forms: Theory and Applications (Amer. Math. Soc., 2018),[ 5] won the 2018 Prose Award for Best Scholarly Book in Mathematics from the Association of American Publishers .[ 6]
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