The Barth quintic surface has Picard number 41

Rams, Sławomir; Schütt, Matthias

doi:10.2422/2036-2145.201109_004

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“…Zhang, whereas his published and unpublished examples appear in various contexts in algebraic geometry (e.g. Barth's quintics surface with 75 lines turns out to be the smooth quintic with the highest Picard number known so far -see [64]).…”

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Wolf Barth (1942--2016)

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Wolf Paul Barth was born on 20th October 1942 in Wernigerode, a small town in the Harz mountains. This is where his family, originally living in Nuremberg, had sought refuge from the bombing raids. In 1943 the family moved to Simmelsdorf, which is close to Nuremberg, but less vulnerable to attacks. In 1945 Barth's brother Hannes was born. The family, the father was a town employee, then moved back to Nuremberg and Wolf Barth's home was close to the famous Nuremberg castle -his playgrounds were the ruins of Nuremberg.In 1961 Wolf Barth successfully completed the Hans Sachs Gymnasium in Nuremberg. He was an excellent student (except in sports), and he then chose to study mathematics and physics at the nearby Universität Erlangen, officially called Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Studies and early academic careerAs it was the standard at the time, Wolf Barth enroled for the Staatsexamen, the German high school teacher's examination. At this time, Reinhold Remmert was a professor of mathematics in Erlangen and Wolf Barth soon felt attracted to this area of mathematics. So, when Remmert moved to Göttingen in 1963, Barth went with him. Göttingen had at that time started to recover to some extent after its losses in the Nazi period and Hans Grauert was one on the leading figures who attracted many talented mathematicians. And indeed, it was Grauert, who became Barth's second academic teacher and a figure who influenced his mathematical thinking greatly. Wolf Barth not only completed his studies in Göttingen, but in May 1967 he also obtained his PhD with a thesis on Einige Eigenschaften analytischer Mengen in kompakten komplexen Mannigfaltigkeiten (Some properties of analytic sets in compact complex manifolds). In 1967 Remmert moved again, this time to take up a chair at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster where Heinrich Behnke had been a professor, and whose successor Remmert became. Münster, the home of the Behnke school, was at that time one of the international centres of the school of several complex variables. Again, Barth followed Remmert and worked for the next two years in Münster. These were lively times at German universities (the '68 revolt) and Barth became interested in and attracted to the ideas of the 1968 generation.Wolf Barth went to spend the academic year 1969/70 as a visiting lecturer at MIT in Cambridge, USA, a period where he encountered many new faces and ideas. In 1971, a year after returning from the USA, he obtained his Habilitation in Münster, where he also became a professor. In 1972 Wolf Barth took up a chair at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. At the time he was the youngest full professor in Leiden. It was here

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Section: Symmetriesmentioning

confidence: 99%