Education
Storch studied mathematics, physics and mathematical logic in Münster and in Heidelberg. He got his Doctor of Philosophy 1966 under the supervision of Heinrich Behnke with a thesis on almost (or Q) factorial rings.
mathematician university professor
Storch studied mathematics, physics and mathematical logic in Münster and in Heidelberg. He got his Doctor of Philosophy 1966 under the supervision of Heinrich Behnke with a thesis on almost (or Q) factorial rings.
His field of research is commutative algebra and analytic and algebraic geometry, in particular derivations, divisor class group, resultants. 1972 Habilitation in Bochum, 1974 professor in Osnabrück and since 1981 professor for algebra and geometry in Bochum. 2005 Emeritation. Uwe Storch is married and has four sons.
The Theorem of Eisenbud-Evans-Storch states that every algebraic variety in n-dimensional affine space is given geometrically (ie up to radical) by n polynomials.