User:Erkabo

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Too weird to live,

too rare to die.

(Hunter S. Thompson)

The place upon my tightrope will ever be impregnable.

Der Platz auf meinem Seile wird immer uneinnehmbar sein.

(Peter Rühmkorf)

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We are four friends from Germany: the brother of the mathematician Andreas Floer and three very close personal friends of Andreas for more than fifteen years, from 1976 on.

We are: Detlef Floer (53) and Michael Link (53), living in Berlin, Germany. We have been friends for over thirty years now.

Rolf Kaiser (55) and Kurt Heim (51), living in Bochum, Germany. We have been friends for over thirty years now.

We are no mathematicians and we are not planning to edit any math articles. We are merely going to watch the good progress of contributions concerning Andreas and the Floer homology.

All we can do is offer help - and information about Andreas himself for anyone interested.

We have put several pictures of Andreas in the Wikimedia Commons, [1]

We express our special thanks to Chan-Ho Suh who wrote the Andreas Floer article and wrote much of the article about Floer homology. It was his initiative which started it all.

We thank David Farris for his excellence in writing most of the Floer homology article and the outstanding Wikipedian Charles Matthews for his expert collaboration.

We thank user Claude J for his translation of the biographical article and especially for the translation of the demanding article Floer homologyinto German. We thank user Grimlock for his translation of the biographical article into French.

We marvel at the number of new wikilinks in the article and are pondering the question if Andreas would have foreseen in how many directions his ideas would ever branch out.

Well, thank y’all, math-folks!

Andreas Floer (left) with his brother Detlef, Duisburg 1978

Andreas Floer (right) with Rolf Kaiser at the Wannsee, Berlin, June 1988

Andreas Floer (left) with Michael Link, California, fall 1989

Andreas Floer (right) with Kurt Heim, Bochum, one summer evening, 1983

This user identifies as gay.

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