Christian Hesse (mathematician)

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Christian Hesse at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden

Christian Hesse (born August 2, 1960 in Oberkirchen ) is a German mathematician. He teaches mathematical statistics at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

Hesse studied at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen from 1979 and from 1983 as a Fulbright scholar at Indiana University . From 1984 to 1987 he was a research fellow at Harvard University , where he received his doctorate in June 1987 with Herman Chernoff . He then taught at the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley until 1991 . Since December 1991 he has been Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the Institute for Stochastics and Applications at the University of Stuttgart .

Among other things, he published books on applied probability theory . In 2009, his book The Little Basics of Clear Thinking was published: 22 thinking tools for a better life , which offers an entertaining introduction to mathematical thinking.

On June 5, 2012, Hesse was summoned as an expert before the Federal Constitutional Court to testify in an oral hearing about electoral aspects of the federal election law , such as the negative voting weight .

Chess is one of his hobbies . In 2006 he published the book Expeditions into the Chess World , which is also available in English and Spanish editions. In 2015 the book Damenopfer was published. The chess historian Edward Winter accused Christian Hesse, citing examples, of using the work of others as a chess author and either not or only incompletely specifying this.

Christian Hesse is married to the communication and political scientist Andrea Römmele and has two children.

Works

  • The stochastics of sedimentation . Stuttgart 1997.
  • Stochastic dynamics for non-linear partial differential equations of high order . Stuttgart 1997.
  • Stochastic modeling of multi-component systems with interaction . Stuttgart 1997.
  • A general procedure for stochastic modeling of systems consisting of a large number of interacting components . Stuttgart 1997.
  • Applied Probability Theory. A well-founded introduction with over 500 realistic examples and exercises. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 978-3-528-03183-1 .
  • Expeditions into the chess world. Chessgate, Nettetal 2006, ISBN 978-3-935748-14-8 .
  • Probability theory. An introduction with examples and applications. Vieweg + Teubner, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8348-0969-8 .
  • The basics of clear thinking: 22 thinking tools for a better life. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58684-2 .
  • Attention, thought trap, the most amazing everyday mistakes and how to look through them . Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62204-5 .
  • Why math makes you happy. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-60608-3 .
  • Christian Hesse's mathematical hodgepodge: 1: 0 = infinite. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63706-3 .
  • What Einstein told his parrot. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65494-7 .
  • Queen sacrifice. Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67459-4 .

Web links

Commons : Christian Hesse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Private homepage
  2. ↑ The contradiction is waiting at the foot of the stairs . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 13, 2009.
  3. ↑ Juraforum.de: Stuttgart mathematician Prof. Hesse loaded by the Constitutional Court as an expert . May 30, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Edward Winter: Copying. chesshistory.com, accessed January 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ @andrearoemmele: andrea roemmele retweeted Christian Hesse. twitter.com , December 17, 2018, accessed February 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hesse, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberkirchen