Detlef Gromoll (13 May 1938 – 31 May 2008) was a mathematician who worked in differential geometry.
Biography
Gromoll was born in
Berlin in 1938,
and was a classically trained violinist.
After living and attending school in
Rosdorf and graduating from high school in
Bonn, he obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Bonn in 1964.
Following sojourns at several universities, he joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1969.
He married Suzan L. Lemay on 29 December 1971, and they had three children together: Hans Christian (also a mathematician), Heidi, and Stefan, a physicist & cofounder of Scientific Media.
See also
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Abresch–Gromoll inequality
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Gromoll–Meyer sphere
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Rational homotopy theory
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Splitting theorem
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Soul theorem
Publications
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