Ivo Schneider (historian)

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Ivo Schneider

Ivo Hans Schneider (born September 1, 1938 in Munich ) is a German historian of mathematics and science.

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Schneider studied mathematics and physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , where he graduated as a mathematician in 1963 and received his doctorate in 1968 on Abraham de Moivre . In 1972 he qualified as a professor ( The Development of the Concept of Probability in Mathematics from Pascal to Laplace ), was visiting professor at Princeton University in 1972/73 (at the invitation of Thomas S. Kuhn ) and adjunct professor in 1978 and professor for the history of natural sciences from 1980 to 1995 of the University of Munich. From 1995 he was professor for the history of science at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich, where he retired in 2003. In 1999/2000 he was a member of the university's senate.

In 1983 he was also a visiting professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University (as part of the project The probabilistic revolution 1800-1930 ) and in the same year visiting professor at the University of Minnesota . In 1999 he was visiting professor at the Technical University of Budapest and he also taught in Stuttgart (1971), Salzburg (1982/83, 1988/89) and Klagenfurt (1985).

As a science historian, he dealt with the history of probability theory and applications in physics, for example with Rudolf Clausius , legends about Archimedes , the use of measuring instruments by applied mathematicians and philosophical influences on mathematics.

He has been a corresponding member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences since 1984 and a member since 1995. From 1990 to 2006 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Deutsches Museum and from 1997 to 2006 he was a member of the board of the Center for the History of Science and Technology (MZWTG) in Munich. From 1988 to 1998 he was the spokesman for the Graduate School Interrelationships between Natural Sciences and Technology in the German-speaking area of the Munich universities and the Deutsches Museum.

Honors

  • In 1971 he received the Rudolf-Kellermann-Prize for the history of technology for his work "The proportional circle - an analog computing instrument of the past" (published by Oldenbourg 1970).
  • In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
  • In 2013 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

literature

  • Rudolf Seising, Menso Folkerts , Ulf Hashagen (eds.): Form, number, order. Studies in the history of science and technology. Ivo Schneider on his 65th birthday . Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08525-4 ( Boethius 48).

Fonts

  • Archimedes engineer, scientist and mathematician , income from research, Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1979
  • Johannes Faulhaber - arithmetic master in a world of upheaval , Birkhäuser, Vita Mathematica, 1993
  • Editor Carl Friedrich Gauss anthology of articles on the 200th birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss , Minerva 1981
  • Development of the calculus of probability from its beginnings to 1933. Introduction and texts , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1988
  • Isaac Newton , Beck 1988 (Beck's Great Thinkers series )
  • Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The mathematician Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) , Archive for the History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 5, 1968/9, pp. 177-317
  2. ↑ Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition, funded by the DFG, applicant: Menso Folkerts, Ivo Schneider u. a. Funding period: since 1971 uni-muenchen.de ( memento from March 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Ivo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Ivo Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany