Christoph Bandelow
Christoph Bandelow (born January 18, 1939 in Magdeburg , † September 30, 2011 in Witten ) was a German mathematician specializing in probability theory , known as the author of books about the Rubik's Cube and similar mathematical conversations.
Life
Bandelow studied mathematics and physics at the University of Tübingen and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1958 and graduated as a mathematician in Munich in 1964. From 1966 he was a research assistant at the Leibniz Computing Center in Munich. He received his doctorate in 1968 under Hans-Georg Kellerer at the Ruhr University Bochum ( recurrence properties of functional Markov chains ). In 1970/71 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee . In 1972 he became Academic Councilor and in 1973 Academic Senior Councilor at the University of Bochum at the Chair of Stochastics .
He is the son of Karli Bandelow , who was executed on November 11, 1954 in the GDR after a show trial (" Gehlen Trial "). His son Nils C. Bandelow is head of the Chair for Domestic Policy at the TU Braunschweig .
Create
As a mathematician, Bandelow dealt with stochastic processes such as Markov chains and their simulation and the generation of random numbers .
He has written several books about the Rubik's Cube (Rubik's Cube) and similar puzzles like Rubik's Revenge , Rubik's Magic (Rubik's Magic Rings), in which he describes the mathematics behind them.
Fonts
- Introduction to probability theory , BI university pocketbook, 1981, 2nd edition 1989
- Introduction to Cubology , Vieweg 1981, English translation: Inside Rubik's Cube and Beyond , Birkhäuser 1982
- Rubik's Magic Rings , Falken Verlag 1982 (also translated into Portuguese)
- Mickey's Challenge , AOA Press Hong Kong 1993 (translated into several languages, also as Sonic's Puzzle Ball )
- Rubik's magic cube , in: Yearbook overviews mathematics 1981, BI Verlag
Web links
- Homepage at the University of Bochum
- Literature by and about Christoph Bandelow in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bandelow, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 2011 |
| Place of death | Witten |