Hans-Günther Bigalke

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Hans-Günther Bigalke (* February 23, 1933 in Celle ; † April 19, 2019 there ) was a German mathematician and university professor . He was one of the pioneers of didactics of mathematics in Germany and co-founder of the Society for Didactics of Mathematics .

Life and research

Bigalke grew up in Eldingen near Celle, where his father was a teacher. After graduating from high school in 1952, he studied mathematics, philosophy and education in Hanover. In 1957 he became a student trainee, in 1958 a student assistant professor, in 1962 a teacher and taught at the Elsa-Brändström-Schule (Hanover) . In 1967 he did his doctorate under Theodor Kaluza with the dissertation: Continuity investigations on certain infinite graphs. It was a work that uses a graph-theoretic interpretation of the binary number representation of real numbers to simulate their order-theoretical and topological properties and offers a special insight into the structures of the basic numerical range in mathematics and mathematics lessons in upper school. From 1968 to 1971 he developed a funding program "On the position of mathematics and natural sciences in the education system of the Federal Republic, in particular for the training and further education of mathematicians and natural scientists in the higher education service". The inadequate didactic training in teacher training was to be remedied and, through his commitment, didactics were established at universities and colleges. In 1972 he became a full professor at the former Lower Saxony University of Education and from 1978 to 1998 he was a university professor at the Leibniz University of Hanover in the former department of education, subject of mathematics. In recent years he has expressed himself resignedly about a mathematics didactics that was increasingly empirically oriented and closer to the related sciences than to mathematics: "There is no scientist with whom the mathematician has to work more closely than the mathematician." After his retirement wrote he two illustrated books about half-timbered houses.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • with Heinrich Heesch: crystal geometry, tiling, four-color research. Basel: Birkhäuser 1988, ISBN 3-7643-1954-2 .
  • Heinrich Heesch: Collected treatises. Edited by Hans-Günther Bigalke. Bad Salzdetfurth: Franzbecker 1986, ISBN 3-88120-157-2 .
  • Spherical geometry with the computer, Weingarten PH, 1998.
  • Regular tiling. With applications in crystallography, industry, construction, design, and the arts, ISBN 978-3411167111 .
  • Theses on the theoretical discussion in mathematics didactics, Springer, 2013.
  • Mathematics lessons accompanied by learning goals instead of learning goal-oriented. In: Praxis der Math., 21 (1979) 6-14.
  • Sense and importance of mathematics didactics. In: Zentralblatt f. Did. d. Math., 6 (1974) 109-115.
  • Carved pictures and figures on half-timbered houses in Germany from 1450 - 1700. Fachwerk culture group, 2008.
  • Half-timbered houses: decorations on Low German half-timbered buildings and their development in Celle, Kulturkreis Fachwerk im Celler Land eVs, 2000, ISBN 978-3-87706-588-4 .

literature

  • Thomas Benürftig, Klaus Hasemann: Obituary for Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Günther Bigalke, GDM-Mitteilungen 108, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Bigalke, Hans-Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH 19th April 2019
Place of death Celle