Andreas Floer (German: [ˈfløːɐ]; 23 August 1956 – 15 May 1991) was a German mathematician who made seminal contributions to symplectic topology, and mathematical physics, in …

Hofer has an online talk describing some history of the discovery of Floer homology and the life of Andreas Floer along with a discussion from titans in the field.

The value of his work was grasped immediately by specialists in differential geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, for whom "Floer homology" has become an essential part of their …

Established in 1992, the Andreas Floer Memorial Lecture takes place in October, during the first meeting of the Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar, and alternates between …

An exceptionally gifted mathematician and an extremely complex person, Floer exhibited, as one friend put it, a "radical individuality." He viewed the world around him with a singularly critical …

Jun 13, 2025 · Floer homology is a powerful tool in modern topology and geometry, named after Andreas Floer, who introduced it in the 1980s. It has since become a fundamental concept in …

Dec 6, 2012 · Motivated by the global existence problem of periodic solutions for Hamiltonian systems and starting from ideas of Conley, Gromov and Witten, he developed his Floer …

Andreas Floer introduced symplectic Floer homology in his 1988 proof of the Arnold conjecture. In mathematics, Floer homology is a tool for studying symplectic geometry and low-dimensional …

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May 15, 1991 · Andreas Floer was a German mathematician best known for his work in symplectic topology and mathematical physics.