Heiner Zieschang (born 12 November 1936 in Kiel; died 5 April 2004) was a German mathematician. He was a professor at Ruhr-University Bochum from 1968 till 2002. In 1996 he was made an honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse and in 1997 he was an honorary professor of Moscow State University.
Literature
Heiner Zieschang: Flächen und ebene diskontinuierliche Gruppen. Berlin 1970, Heiner Zieschang: On decompositions of discontinuous groups of the plane. Math. Zeit. 151 (1976), 165-188 Heiner Zieschang: Surfaces and planar discontinuous groups, Berlin 1980 Heiner Zieschang: Finite groups of mapping classes of surfaces. Berlin 1981, Gerhard Burde ; Heiner Zieschang: Knots, Berlin [u.a.] 1985 Ralph Stöcker, Heiner Zieschang: Algebraische Topologie. Teubner, Stuttgart 1988, Heiner Zieschang: Lineare Algebra und Geometrie. Stuttgart 1997,