Education
Brown University.
mathematician university professor
Brown University.
Ernst Ruh received in 1964 from Brown University under Katsumi Nomizu with thesis On the Automorphism Groups of a G-structure. He is a professor at Ohio State University and a professor of computer science at the University of Basel (1987/89). In 1990 Ruh became a full professor (professor ordinarius) of mathematics at the University of Fribourg.
He was the successor of Josef Schmid.
In 2006 he retired as professor emeritus. His name is attached to the Gromov-Ruh theorem.
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Berkeley in 1986. He became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.