Heiner Zieschang

Heiner Zieschang (12 November 1936 in Kiel – 5 April 2004 in Bochum) was a German mathematician. He was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum from 1968 till 2002. He was a topologist. In 1996 he was an honorary doctor of University of Toulouse and in 1997 he was an honorary professor of Moscow State University.

• Heiner Zieschang: Flächen und ebene diskontinuierliche Gruppen. Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-540-04911-8 (German)
• Heiner Zieschang: On decompositions of discontinuous groups of the plane. Math. Zeit. 151 (1976), 165-188
• Heiner Zieschang; Elmar Vogt; Hans-Dieter Coldewey: Surfaces and planar discontinuous groups, Berlin 1980 ISBN 0-387-10024-5
• Heiner Zieschang: Finite groups of mapping classes of surfaces. Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-540-10857-2
• Gerhard Burde; Heiner Zieschang: Knots, Berlin [u.a.] 1985 ISBN 3-11-008675-1; 2nd edition, revised and expanded. 2003. 
• Ralph Stöcker; Heiner Zischang: Algebraische Topologie. Teubner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-519-02226-5 (German)
• Heiner Zieschang: Lineare Algebra und Geometrie. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-519-02230-3 (German)
• Boto v. Querenburg: Mengentheoretische Topologie. 3. Auflage. Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-540-67790-9 (German)

• Gilman, Jane (1983). "Review: Surfaces and planar discontinuous groups by Heiner Ziescahng, Elmar Vogt, and Hans-Dieter Coldewey" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 9 (2): 256–259. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15176-5. 
• Birman, Joan S. "Review: Knots by Gerhard Burde and Heiner Zieschang; On knots by Louis H. Kauffman" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 19 (2): 550–558. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15740-0. 
• Silver, Daniel S. "Review: Knots by G. Burde and H. Zieschang; Algebraic invariants of links by Jonathan Silverman" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 41 (1): 135–147. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-03-01000-0.