Ulrich Pinkall

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ulrich Pinkall is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Applied Mathematics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ulrich Pinkall has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Geometry and Topology, 31 papers in Applied Mathematics and 27 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Ulrich Pinkall's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (26 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (18 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (15 papers). Ulrich Pinkall is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (26 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (18 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (15 papers). Ulrich Pinkall collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Ulrich Pinkall's co-authors include Konrad Polthier, Peter Schröder, Keenan Crane, Ivan Sterling, Katsumi Nomizu, Felix Knöppel, Boris Springborn, Franz Pedit, Alexander I. Bobenko and Dirk Ferus and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, Communications in Mathematical Physics and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

Ulrich Pinkall

77 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Computing Discrete Minimal Surfaces and Their Conjugates

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ulrich Pinkall Germany	31	1.7k	1.3k	972	952	515	83	3.4k
Alexander I. Bobenko Germany	25	697 0.4×	472 0.4×	409 0.4×	671 0.7×	128 0.2×	61	2.1k
J. W. Bruce United Kingdom	20	453 0.3×	217 0.2×	684 0.7×	941 1.0×	236 0.5×	91	1.9k
Michael Spivak United States	5	337 0.2×	154 0.1×	731 0.8×	677 0.7×	244 0.5×	9	2.4k
P. J. Giblin United Kingdom	18	422 0.2×	306 0.2×	355 0.4×	376 0.4×	518 1.0×	68	1.4k
Feng Luo United States	19	514 0.3×	393 0.3×	665 0.7×	760 0.8×	174 0.3×	71	1.6k
Shing‐Tung Yau United States	19	234 0.1×	88 0.1×	815 0.8×	698 0.7×	1.1k 2.2×	52	2.5k
Gerhard Dziuk Germany	24	1.7k 1.0×	268 0.2×	361 0.4×	91 0.1×	101 0.2×	48	2.4k
Hermann Karcher Germany	20	282 0.2×	79 0.1×	1.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	221 0.4×	37	2.1k
Manfredo do Carmo Brazil	17	246 0.1×	79 0.1×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	144 0.3×	46	2.0k
Martin Rumpf Germany	32	1.5k 0.9×	875 0.7×	102 0.1×	97 0.1×	956 1.9×	131	2.8k

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Pinkall, Ulrich, et al.. (2024). Differential Geometry. 2 indexed citations

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Pinkall, Ulrich, et al.. (2024). Conformal surface splines. Differential Geometry and its Applications. 97. 102200–102200.

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Gross, Oliver, Ulrich Pinkall, & Peter Schröder. (2023). Plasma knots. Physics Letters A. 480. 128986–128986. 1 indexed citations

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Pinkall, Ulrich, et al.. (2014). Smoke rings from smoke. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 33(4). 1–8. 23 indexed citations

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Crane, Keenan, et al.. (2011). Spin transformations of discrete surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 30(4). 1–10. 46 indexed citations

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Crane, Keenan, Ulrich Pinkall, & Peter Schröder. (2011). Spin transformations of discrete surfaces. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 1–10. 37 indexed citations

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Pinkall, Ulrich, et al.. (2010). Filament-based smoke with vortex shedding and variational reconnection. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 29(4). 1–1.

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Pinkall, Ulrich, et al.. (2010). Filament-based smoke with vortex shedding and variational reconnection. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 29(4). 1–12. 76 indexed citations

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Pedit, Franz, et al.. (2005). Willmore tori in the 4–Sphere with nontrivial normal bundle. Mathematische Annalen. 332(2). 381–394. 9 indexed citations

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Pedit, Franz, et al.. (2002). Quaternions, Spinors, and Surfaces. Contemporary mathematics - American Mathematical Society. 20 indexed citations

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Pedit, Franz, et al.. (1998). Bonnet pairs and isothermic surfaces. Duke Mathematical Journal. 92(3). 43 indexed citations

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Pinkall, Ulrich & Ivan Sterling. (1993). Computational aspects of soap bubble deformations. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 118(2). 571–576. 4 indexed citations

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Burstall, Francis E., Dirk Ferus, Franz Pedit, & Ulrich Pinkall. (1993). Harmonic Tori in Symmetric Spaces and Commuting Hamiltonian Systems on Loop Algebras. Annals of Mathematics. 138(1). 173–173. 69 indexed citations

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Pinkall, Ulrich & Gudlaugur Thorbergsson. (1990). Examples of infinite dimensional isoparametric submanifolds. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 205(1). 279–286. 14 indexed citations

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Nomizu, Katsumi & Ulrich Pinkall. (1989). On the geometry of projective immersions. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 41(4). 11 indexed citations

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Kulkarni, Ravi S., et al.. (1988). Conformal geometry : a publication of the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn.

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Pinkall, Ulrich. (1986). Curvature properties of taut submanifolds. Geometriae Dedicata. 20(1). 8 indexed citations

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Pinkall, Ulrich. (1986). Tight surfaces and regular homotopy. Topology. 25(4). 475–481. 7 indexed citations

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Pinkall, Ulrich. (1985). Regular homotopy classes of immersed surfaces. Topology. 24(4). 421–434. 57 indexed citations

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Pinkall, Ulrich. (1984). W-Kurven in der ebenen Lie-Geometrie. II.. 39. 28–33. 1 indexed citations

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