Susanne Dierolf
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Susanne Dierolf (16 July 1942 – 24 April 2009)[1] was a German mathematician specializing in the theory of topological vector spaces.[2] She was a professor for many years at the University of Trier.[3]
Dierolf was born on 16 July 1942[1] in Bratislava, at the time under German occupation and administered as part of Lower Austria.[4]
She completed her doctorate in 1974 at LMU Munich, with the dissertation Über Vererbbarkeitseigenschaften in topologischen Vektorräumen supervised by Walter Roelcke.[5] She continued at LMU Munich as an assistant, earning her habilitation there in 1985. She became a Privatdozent at Trier in 1985, and außerplanmäßiger Professor in 1991.[6]
Research
Dierolf published 71 mathematics papers and was the advisor to ten doctoral students. Highlights of her research contributions include the solution of four problems of Alexander Grothendieck and of a conjecture of Dmitriĭ A. Raĭkov. Her work often involved the construction of counterexamples, for which she became known as "Mrs. Counterexample".[2]
Beyond the main part of her work on topological vector spaces, she was also a coauthor of a book on topological group theory, Uniform structures on topological groups and their quotients (with Walter Roelcke, McGraw-Hill, 1981).[7]
