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Martin Wirsing was born on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 1948, in Bayreuth, a Bavarian town which is famous for the annually celebrated Richard Wagner Festival. There he visited the Lerchenbühl School and the High-School “Christian Ernestinum” where he followed the humanistic branch focusing on Latin and Ancient Greek. After that, from 1968 to 1974, Martin studied Mathematics at University Paris 7 and at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. In 1971 he became Maitrise-en-Sciences Mathematiques at the University Paris 7 and, in 1974, he got the Diploma in Mathematics at LMU Munich.