Eckart Menzler-Trott
Eckart Menzler-Trott (born 1. June 1953 ; died 17th January 2017 in Munich ) was a German author, biographer Gerhard Gentzen and an expert in call centers - Marketing . He has also written critical and narrative articles that have appeared in TransAtlantik , Der Bote and FORVM , among others .
Life
Menzler studied mathematics and philosophy in Berlin , Munich and Frankfurt am Main from 1974 to 1980 and then worked as an advertising manager, editor, freelance journalist and writer. From 1990 he worked for various companies in the field of call center management, from 1999 he was managing director of a company consulting company in Freising.
In 2001 Menzler's biography of the mathematician and logician Gerhard Gentzen was published. In addition to the life of Gentzen, the subject was the fate of mathematical logic in Germany under the rule of the National Socialists, who sought to establish “ German mathematics ”. In 2007 an English adaptation of the biography of Craig Smorynski and Edward Griffor was published by the American Mathematical Society .
From 1981 he published the magazine Katabole together with Heike Maas , but it had to be discontinued after the second issue. From 2006 to 2010 he co-edited the online magazine Diadiss with Bernhard Raestrup and Beatrix Woyth. Magazine for culture, science and society .
On March 17, 2017, he was buried anonymously on the Sonnenbichl meadow in Lippertskirchen near Bad Feilnbach .
Fonts
- Call center management. A guide for companies to efficient customer dialogue. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-43262-X .
- Call center solutions. Ways to profitable customer communication. IM Marketing Forum, Ettlingen 2000, ISBN 3-930047-44-6 .
- with Christa Hasenmaile: Workers in the call center. Situation - rights - design options. Bund-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-7663-3224-4 .
- Gentzen's problem. Mathematical Logic in National Socialist Germany. With an essay by Jan von Plato . Birkhäuser, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7643-6574-9 . English adaptation by Craig Smorynski and Edward Griffor: Logic's Lost Genius. The Life of Gerhard Gentzen. History of Mathematics Series , Volume 33. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI and London Mathematical Society, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8218-3550-0 .
- with Markus Hahnel (ed.): Call Center Evolution. Standards for efficient customer and employee relationships. Vahlen, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8006-2506-7 .
literature
Reviews of Gentzen's biography:
- Dirk van Dalen : Review in: The Mathematical Intelligencer . Vol. 26, No. 4, (2004), p. 64.
- Dirk van Dalen: Review in: NRC Handelsblad , issue of 13./14. July 2002, p. 33 (German translation: A logician among the Nazis - the ingenious scholar Gentzen was above all naive ).
- Volker Peckhaus : Review in: Bulletin of Symbolic Logic . Vol. 9, No. 4 (December 2001), pp. 508-510.
- Bill Tait: Review of Logic's lost genius in Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. Vol. 16 (2010), pp. 270-275.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eckart Menzler-Trott in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ I want the truth and nothing but the truth ... The political testament of the German mathematician and logician Gottlob Frege. A reading of his diary from 10.3. until 9.5. 1924. In: FORVM 36th vol. No. 432. Vienna 1989, pages 68-79.
- ↑ Catabols. An Experimental Journal of Philosophy. Fritschenpresse, Frankfurt am Main 1981 f., ZDB -ID 585185-3 .
- ↑ Diadiss ( Memento from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (archived version of the homepage from December 30, 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menzler-Trott, Eckart |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Menzler, Eckart (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and marketing specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1953 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 2017 |
| Place of death | Munich |