nLab Dieter Puppe

Siegmund Dieter Puppe (1930-2005) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic topology and homotopy theory in particular. He held a chair at Heidelberg University from 1968 until his retirement in 1996. Among other publications he notably published in 1966 together with H.-B. Brinkmann Kategorien und Funktoren , one of the first German language textbooks1 on category theory.

  • Klaus Volkert, Vier Heidelberger Topologen 1935-1996, Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 124 (2022) 215–238 [doi; pdf]

Selected publications

Early discussion of long exact sequences of homotopy groups (whence “Puppe sequences”):

On homological algebra:

On abelian categories:

  • Dieter Puppe: Korrespondenzen in abelschen Kategorien , Math. Ann. 148 (1962) pp.1-30. (gdz)

On homotopy theory:

On dualizable objects, traces and the Becker-Gottlieb transfer:

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  1. In the same year Hasse and Michler published Theorie der Kategorien, Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin (1966)

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