Background
Eckmann, Beno was born on March 31, 1917 in Bern, Switzerland. Son of Aron and Berthe (Kischinewski) Eckmann.
mathematician university professor
Eckmann, Beno was born on March 31, 1917 in Bern, Switzerland. Son of Aron and Berthe (Kischinewski) Eckmann.
Master in Mathematics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Fribourg, Switzerland, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Ben Gurion University Beer Sheva, 2004.
Born in Bern, Eckmann received his master"s degree from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ) in 1939. Later he studied there under Heinz Hopf, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy in 1941. Calabi–Eckmann manifolds, Eckmann–Hilton duality, the Eckmann–Hilton argument, and the Eckmann–Shapiro lemma are named after Eckmann.
Eckmann"s son is mathematical physicist Jean-Pierre Eckmann.
Member Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters (foreign), International Congress Mathematicians (honorary president 1994), Academia Europaea, 1993, Swiss Mathematics Society(president 1961-1962), International Mathematics Union (secretary 1956-1961), American Mathematics Society.
Married Doris Marion Wolf, March 29, 1942. Children: Jean-Pierre, Monique, Claude.