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Helga Baum
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Helga Baum in 2007.
Born
Helga Dlubek

1954
German
Alma mater Humboldt University of Berlin
Occupation mathematician, professor

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

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].

Books

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

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