Benno Artmann

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Benno Artmann (born January 18, 1933 in Heiligenstadt , † October 14, 2010 in Göttingen ) was a German mathematician .

Benno Artmann, Darmstadt, 1996

Artmann studied at the University of Tübingen (among others with Günter Pickert , Helmut Wielandt , Hellmuth Kneser , Max Müller ) and at the University of Gießen , where he received his doctorate in 1965 with Günter Pickert ( automorphisms and coordinates in plane associations ). He was a post-graduate student at the University of Michigan and McMaster University . In 1968 he completed his habilitation in Giessen on projective geometry and became a professor there in 1970. In 1974 he became a professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he built up mathematics didactics. In 1998 he retired and then lived in Göttingen, where he volunteered at the university with a teaching position on mathematics didactics.

In addition to mathematics education (in which he was particularly concerned with linear algebra, where he was inspired by Gilbert Strang ), his main interest was geometry, especially the geometry of associations and rings (according to Johannes Hjelmslev , Hjelmslev levels, etc.). He wrote a book about Euclid and its elements and dealt with the history of mathematics (for example mathematics in the Academy of Platos, mathematics on Greek coins and in chronograms , history of regular polyhedra). He also made mathematical sculptures. In Göttingen he campaigned for the documentation of historical mathematical sites and the care of mathematicians' graves.

Together with Arnold Kirsch, he was editor of the series “Modern Mathematics in Elementary Representation” at Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht.

Fonts

  • Lineare Algebra, Birkhäuser Skripten 1986, 3rd edition 1991
  • Euclid: The creation of mathematics, Springer Verlag 1999
  • The concept of numbers, series: Modern mathematics in elementary representation, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983
  • The Concept of number: from quaternions to monads and topological fields, Chichester: Ellis Horwood 1988
  • On pre-Euclidean elements of spatial geometry from the school of Eudoxus, Archive Hist. Exact Sciences, Vol. 39, 1988, pp. 121-135
  • Plato and Mathematics, Mathematische Semesterberichte, Volume 44, 1997, pp. 1-17

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Obituary in Göttingen, pdf
personal data
SURNAME Artmann, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiligenstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2010
Place of death Goettingen