Category:Eduard Stiefel

**Eduard Stiefel**
	Swiss mathematician (1909-1978)
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Name in native language	Eduard Stiefel;
Date of birth	21 April 1909; Zurich
Date of death	25 November 1978; Zurich
Place of burial	Cemetery Witikon (47°21′47.002″N 8°36′13″E);
Country of citizenship	Switzerland;
Educated at	ETH Zurich (1928–1935); University of Hamburg (1932–1933); University of Göttingen (1932–1933);
Doctoral advisor	Heinz Hopf;
Doctoral student	Peter Henrici (1953); Corrado Böhm (1954); Rolf Jeltsch (1972); Carl August Zehnder (1965); Jean Descloux (1961); Peter Läuchli (1959); Walter Robert Baum (1950); Walter Habicht (1946); Urs Kirchgraber (1972); Jörg Waldvogel (1966); Werner Gysin (1941); Adrian Kirchhoff (1953); Talaat Hilal (1971); Themistocles Dracos (1963); Claude Alain Burdet (1968); Max Rössler (1966); Max Anliker (1955); Hans Rudolf Schwarz (1956); Albert Fässler (1976); Jean de Siebenthal (1951); …;
Occupation	mathematician; university teacher;
Employer	ETH Zurich (1942–1978); Swiss Armed Forces (1932–1941);
Member of	German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters;
Position held	chairperson (Swiss Mathematical Society, 1956–1957); council member (Zurich, 1958–1966);
Field of work	topology; applied mathematics;
Father	Eduard Stiefel;
Notable work	Stiefel manifold; Stiefel–Whitney class; conjugate gradient method; Methods of conjugate gradients for solving linear systems; Nonlinear conjugate gradient method;
Award received	Honorary doctorate from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (1974); honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1971);
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	Q122724; ISNI: 0000000110756678; VIAF ID: 88056101; GND ID: 13818061X; Library of Congress authority ID: n80119463; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12380186f; IdRef ID: 032852436; Libraries Australia ID: 35525274; NL CR AUT ID: mzk2004236850; HDS ID: 031672; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 074827839; NUKAT ID: n98096489; J9U ID: 987009748157405171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA01372860; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 21648
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Eduard Stiefel (1909–1978) Mathematiker.jpg 1,400 × 1,050; 1.56 MB
Eduard Stiefel ETH-Bib Portr 00817.jpg 412 × 600; 39 KB
Eduard Stiefel Grabstein Friedhof Witikon Zürich.jpg 937 × 937; 440 KB
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Otto Volk, Eduard Stiefel.jpeg 273 × 400; 19 KB