Josef Heinhold

Josef Heinhold (born July 4, 1912 in Düsseldorf ; † April 5, 2000 ) was a German mathematician , computer scientist , university lecturer and specialist book author .

Life

Josef Heinhold studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 1938 under Oskar Perron with a dissertation on generalization and tightening of a Minkowski sentence . He completed his habilitation in 1940 with the habilitation thesis "On the Geometry of Numbers" and then temporarily represented Richard Baldus' chair for geometry .

After the Second World War , Heinhold took over the extraordinary position of Josef Lense at the Technical University of Munich , after he had switched to the chair of Georg Faber .

In 1950 Heinhold was appointed associate professor and in 1955 he was appointed to a full professorship. He founded the Institute for Applied Mathematics and became its first director. In the same year Heinhold became managing director of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM). In October 1955 , Alwin Walther organized the first international conference on computer development for Germany under the auspices of GAMM and the Telecommunications Society (NTG) . The speakers included a. Heinz Unger , Klaus Samelson , Sergei Alexejewitsch Lebedew and Bruno Thüring . A central theme was the project, as Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann called it, "to create a uniform, exact notation that allows automatic conversion into machine commands", for which Alwin Walther suggested the formation of a working committee. Following these suggestions, the GAMM Technical Committee for Programming (GAMM-FAP) was founded in 1956 under the chairmanship of Josef Heinhold , which should make a decisive contribution to the development of ALGOL .

Heinz Schecher , Ulrich Kulisch and Ludwig Fahrmeir are among his doctoral students . When Heinhold retired in 1981, Klaus Ritter took over the chair.

Publications

Generalization and tightening of a Minkowski theorem , dissertation, 1939
On the geometry of numbers , Springer, 1941
Theory and application of the functions of a complex variable. A textbook for students of science and technology. First volume. Munich, Leibniz Verlag (Oldenbourg), 1948
With Alwin Walther u. Heinz Rutishauser : Contributions to the discussion at the 1955 computer conference in Darmstadt , 1956
As editor: technical terms of programming technology. Dictionary for programming digital computers with key words in five languages , developed by the GAMM Programming Committee, publisher: Munich: Oldenbourg, 1959.
With Friedrich L. Bauer , Klaus Samelson , Robert Sauer : Modern computing systems. An introduction. Guidelines for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 5, Teubner, 1964
With Karl-Walter Gaede: engineering statistics . R. Oldenbourg, 1964, 4th edition 1979
With Ulrich Kulisch : analog computing. An introduction. Mannheim, Bibliographisches Institut, university pocket books, Informatics series, 1969.
With Herbert Fischer u. Bruno Riedmüller: Tasks and solutions for linear algebra and analytical geometry , Munich, Hanser, 1971
With Bruno Riedmüller: Basics of linear algebra for universities of applied sciences . Munich, Hanser 1974.
With Bruno Riedmüller: Linear Algebra and Analytical Geometry . 2 vols. Mchn., Hanser 1971–73.
Linear Algebra and Analytical Geometry , Part 1. 2nd edition. Munich, Hanser, 1975
Linear Algebra and Analytical Geometry . Part 2, Munich, Hanser Verlag, 1973
With Karl-Walter Gaede: Tasks and solutions for engineering statistics. Munich, Oldenbourg, 1973
With Karl-Walter Gaede: Chance and Law. An introduction to probability and statistics. , Oldenbourg Munich, 1974, further edition 1982, ISBN 3-486-34541-9 .
With Karl-Walter Gaede: Basics of Operations Research Part 1. Munich, Hanser, 1976
Introduction to Higher Mathematics. Part 1: Basics of linear algebra , Munich, Hanser, 1976
With Rudolf Albrecht: Basics of computer arithmetic. , Springer, 1977, ISBN 3-211-81410-8 .
With Fred Behringer: Introduction to Higher Mathematics. Part 2: Calculus , Munich, Hanser, ISBN 3-446-12174-9 .
With Fred Behringer: Introduction to Higher Mathematics. Part 3: Differential equations , Munich, Hanser, ISBN 3-446-12316-4 .
With Karl-Walter Gaede: Introduction to Higher Mathematics. Part 4: Function theory , Munich, Hanser, 1995, ISBN 3-446-123-17-2 .

literature

A Century of Mathematics 1890–1990. Commemorative publication for the anniversary of the German Mathematicians Association (DMV). Edited by Gerd Fischer, Braunschweig, 1990.
Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd Edition. tape 4 . KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25034-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Thomas Ströhlein: The history of mathematics at the TU , TU Munich.
↑ Hans Dieter Hellige (Ed.): Stories of Computer Science. Visions, paradigms, leitmotifs. Berlin, Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-00217-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Heinhold, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician, computer scientist, university professor and textbook author
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 2000
Place of death	Munich

[1] Thomas Ströhlein: The history of mathematics at the TU , TU Munich.

[2] Hans Dieter Hellige (Ed.): Stories of Computer Science. Visions, paradigms, leitmotifs. Berlin, Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-00217-0 .