Bernd Thaller

Bernd Thaller (* 1956 ) is an Austrian mathematical physicist and university professor for didactics of mathematics at the University of Graz .

Life

Bernd Thaller completed his studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Graz in 1981. From 1981 to 1982 he was an assistant at the University of Vienna and from 1983-1986 he worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Mathematics I at the Free University of Berlin and then returned to the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Graz, where he qualified as a professor in 1988 in applied mathematics . In 1998 he was appointed university professor. Since 2008 he has been the head of the regional specialist didactics center for mathematics and geometry in Styria and since 2018 professor for mathematics didactics at the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Graz.

Research and Teaching

In the field of mathematical physics, he published works on the spectral and scattering theory of operators in Hilbert space , with applications in relativistic quantum mechanics . In 1992 the monograph The Dirac Equation was published . Another focus is his contributions to the visualization of high-dimensional data and time-dependent quantum mechanical phenomena. In addition, he published the textbooks and programs Visual Quantum Mechanics (2000) and Advanced Visual Quantum Mechanics (2004) for which he was awarded the European Academic Software Award (2000 and 2004). He is co-author of the didactic books 100 Commonly Asked Questions in Math Class (2013) and Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures (2015).

Works (selection)

• The Dirac Equation Monograph. Texts and Monographs in Physics. W. Beiglböck, E. Lieb, W. Thirring (Eds.) Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1992, ISBN 978-3-540-54883-6
• Visual Quantum Mechanics - Selected Topics with computer generated movies of quantum mechanical phenomena , Book / CD combination, Springer-Verlag New York 2000, ISBN 0-387-98929-3
• Advanced Visual Quantum Mechanics , Book / CD combination, Springer New York 2004, ISBN 0-387-20777-5
• with Alfred S. Posamentier: Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures, Prometheus Books New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-63388-030-6

Web links

• https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/22865636_Bernd_Thaller Bernd Thaller on ResearchGate
• https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=uZr4jeAAAAAJ&hl=en Bernd Thaller on Google Scholar
• https://imsc.uni-graz.at/thaller/ Homepage of Bernd Thaller (accessed on November 19, 2018)
• https://vqm.uni-graz.at/ Visual Quantum Mechanics
• https://mug.didaktik-graz.at/ Regional didactic center for mathematics and geometry in Graz