Bernhard Ganter

Bernhard Ganter 2017

Bernhard Ganter (* 10. July 1949 in Dusseldorf ) is a German mathematician and emeritus professor of algebraic structure theory at the Institute of Algebra at the Technical University of Dresden .

Scientific career

In his scientific work, Ganter initially dealt with general algebra , order theory , discrete mathematics and the connections between these areas.

In 1974 Ganter received his doctorate with a dissertation on marble runs at the TH Darmstadt (now TU). His supervisor was the mathematician Rudolf Wille .

In 1978 he was appointed to the mathematics department at the TU Darmstadt. There he was part of the concept analysis research group , which, under the direction of Wille, founded and developed the new work area formal concept analysis in the early 1980s . Ganter is co-author and co-editor of a number of key publications on the subject; including the standard work Formal Concept Analysis - Mathematical Foundations and Formal Concept Analysis. Foundations and Applications .

In 1993 Ganter was appointed to the Institute for Algebra at the TU Dresden. There he further developed the theory of formal concept analysis, in particular the method of feature exploration . A textbook on order theory emerged from lectures: Discrete Mathematics: Ordered Sets .

There he was in charge of the most important international conference series on formal concept analysis , the International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA).

In 2008, together with Volker Nollau, he founded the Mathematics Adventure Land , a permanent exhibition in the Dresden Technical Collections . Many of the exhibits shown there were designed by him.

From 2009 to 2014 he was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and spokesman for the School of Science at TU Dresden.

useful information

Bernhard Ganter was involved in the development of the experimental musical instrument Mutabor and the exhibition “Symmetry in Art, Nature and Science”, which was shown in 1985 at Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt. In addition to mathematics, he also belonged to the computer science faculty at TU Dresden. He has Erdős number 2.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Ganter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernhard Ganter: Language Comparison - Qualitative Methods. Lecture in SS 2004 at the TU Dresden. Technische Universität Dresden, 2004, accessed on May 12, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Ganter in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Prof. Bernhard Ganter - Professor for Algebraic Structure Theory. TU-Dresden, archived from the original on January 19, 2018 ; accessed on August 29, 2018 . 
3. ^ Bernhard Ganter, Rudolf Wille: Formal term analysis - mathematical foundations . Springer, 1996, ISBN 3-540-60868-0 . also English: ISBN 978-3-540-62771-5 , Chinese: ISBN 978-7-03-015235-0
   
4. ^ Bernhard Ganter, Gerd Stumme, Rudolf Wille (Eds.): Formal Concept Analysis. Foundations and Applications . Springer, 2005, ISBN 3-540-27891-5 ( online preview ).
5. ↑ Bernhard Ganter, Sergei Obiedkov: Conceptual exploration . Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-49290-1 .
6. ↑ Bernhard Ganter: Discrete Mathematics: Ordered Sets (=  Springer textbook ). Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-37499-9 .
7. ↑ Ulrike Püschmann: Bernhard Ganter. TU-Dresden, April 29, 2010, archived from the original on January 10, 2017 ; Retrieved June 17, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Adventure Land Mathematics Dresden. Adventure Land Mathematics - Technical Collections Dresden, 2014, accessed on June 17, 2016 .