page_title: Heidelberg University Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
section_title: Institute of Mathematics
hierarchical_section_title: Heidelberg University Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science / Institute of Mathematics
context_page_description: The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science is one of twelve faculties at the University of Heidelberg. It comprises the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Applied Mathematics, the School of Applied Sciences, and the Institute of Computer Science. The faculty maintains close relationships to the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing and the Mathematics Center Heidelberg. The first chair of mathematics was entrusted to the physician Jacob Curio in the year 1547.
context_section_description: In 1547, the first chair of mathematics was entrusted to the physician Jacob Curio. Today, areas of research include:
  Complex analysis: automorphic functions and modular forms
  Arithmetic: algebraic number theory, algorithmic algebra, and arithmetical geometry
  Topology and geometry: geometric partial differential equations, algebraic topology, differential topology, and differential geometry
caption: Sofia Kovalevskaya
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