Christa Binder

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Christa Binder (born August 24, 1947 in Vienna ) is an Austrian mathematician.

Life

Binder studied mathematics at the University of Vienna , where she received her doctorate in 1971 under Edmund Hlawka (and Leopold Butterer ) ( on a sentence by de Bruijn and Post ). From 1971 she was an assistant at the University of Vienna and published on number theory (theory of uniform distribution mod 1), but then turned to the history of mathematics, which she taught at the Technical University of Vienna from 1986 . Since 1991 she has been a scientific officer (scientific senior councilor) there.

Research and events

She is particularly concerned with mathematics in Austria, both in the 19th and 20th centuries (including Olga Taussky-Todd , Hilda Geiringer , Johann Radon , Hlawka) and in the early modern period (first and second Viennese school, Georg von Peuerbach , Regiomontanus , Johannes von Gmunden , Heinrich Schreiber , Georg Tannstetter and others), and with the history of number theory and regular fields.

Binder is on the board of the Austrian Society for the History of Science and organized many symposia on the history of mathematics (in Neuhofen an der Ybbs and Miesenbach ).

Fonts

  • With Edmund Hlawka, Peter Schmitt: Basic Concepts of Mathematics, Prugg, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-85385-038-3 .
  • Math for cartographers. Geographical Institute of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1976, OCLC 3709950 .
  • with Martina Bečvářová: Mathematics in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire: proceedings of a symposium held in Budapest on August 1, 2009 during the XXIII ICHST. Univerzita Karlova Matematicko-Fyzikální Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University (= History of mathematics , Volume 41), Charles University , Matfyzpress, Prague 2011, ISBN 978-80-7378114-9 .
  • 100 years ago: Mathematics in Vienna. (PDF; 348 kB). Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten, No. 193, 2003. pp. 1-20.
  • The first Viennese mathematical school (Johannes von Gmunden, Georg von Peuerbach). In: Rainer Gebhardt , Helmuth Albrecht : arithmetic masters and cossists of the early modern times. Adam-Ries-Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz, Volume 7, 1996, ISBN 3-86012-031-X .
  • The Second Vienna Mathematical School. In: Karl Röttel: Ad Fontes Arithmeticae at Algebrae, Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Kaunzner (= Bad Staffelsteiner series, volume 7). Polygon, Buxheim / Eichstätt 1998, ISBN 3-928671-20-0 (Polygon) / ISBN 3-9802943-6-6 (City of Staffelstein).
  • with Günter Krapp, Brigitte Rapp: Reading, evaluating and writing texts , Krapp and Gutknecht, Rot an der Rot 2001, ISBN 3-932609-21-2 .
  • Austria. Article in: Joseph Dauben , Christoph Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0 ( English ).
  • Austria and Hungary. In: Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Ed.): Companion Encyclopedia of the History of the Mathematical Sciences. Routledge, London / New York, NY 1994, ISBN 0-415-03785-9 ( English ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Binder, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna