Hans-Joachim Ilgauds

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Hans-Joachim Ilgauds (born November 28, 1941 - † April 9, 2015 ) was a German science and mathematics historian.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1960, Hans-Joachim Ilgauds studied chemistry and mathematics at the Pedagogical University in Potsdam , graduating in 1964 and was then a teacher at the grammar school (extended secondary school) in Neubrandenburg until 1970 . Since 1970 he has been a research assistant at the Karl-Sudhoff Institute in Leipzig.

The science historian Hans Joachim Ilgauds comes from the school of Hans Wußing in Leipzig and was at the Karl Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Science at the University of Leipzig (as well as Karl-Heinz Schlote , Walther Siegmund-Schultze , Sonja Brentjes and Renate Tobies ). The department for the history of mathematics and natural science of the institute was wound up after the reunification.

Ilgauds has published biographies of Norbert Wiener and Georg Cantor (with Walter Purkert ) and is co-author and co-editor of a mathematicians lexicon that was published in 1990 and is considered a standard work. He also made contributions to the Felix Hausdorff Complete Edition, to which Walter Purkert is involved in Bonn. He also dealt with the history of astronomy especially of Leipzig such as the history of the university observatory and Heinrich Bruns and Alfred Jeremias .

Fonts

  • with Siegfried Gottwald , Karl-Heinz Schlote (editor): Lexicon of important mathematicians . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1990
  • with Walter Purkert: Georg Cantor: 1845-1918 , Teubner 1985, Birkhäuser 1987 (Vita Mathematica)
  • Norbert Wiener , Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1980
  • Contributions to Hans Wußing u. a. History of Natural Science , Leipzig, Edition Leipzig 1983, 2nd edition Aulis Verlag 1987
  • Contributions to Hans Wußing, Ludwig Arnold (editor) biographies of important mathematicians , Berlin, Volk und Wissen, 4th edition 1989, Aulis Verlag 1989
  • with Gisela Münzel The Leipzig University Observatories on the Pleißenburg and in the Johannistal : astronomical schools of world renown , Sax Verlag, Beucha 1995
personal data
SURNAME Ilgauds, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science and mathematics historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1941
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2015