Karl Manteuffel

Karl Manteuffel (center) and Richard Teßmer at the conference '50 Years of Electrical Engineering at the TH Magdeburg '(2008)

Karl Manteuffel (* 1924 ) is a German mathematician and professor of linear optimization and linear algebra as well as operations research and game theory . He became known as the author and editor of mathematical textbooks and extensive textbook series for non-mathematicians ( MINÖL ).

Live and act

Karl Manteuffel completed a school education before and during the Second World War, which he graduated from high school in 1943 . He then studied at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) to 1950 mathematics and received his degree in mathematics . Then his doctorate he here in 1954 to Dr. rer. nat.

He started his career as a mathematician at what was then the University of Heavy Engineering in Magdeburg . As a senior assistant and then as a lecturer and since 1959 as a professor at the Technical University "Otto von Guericke" and the Technical University "Otto von Guericke" as well as the Otto von Guericke University , his main areas of responsibility were the content and organizational design of mathematics education , preferably for engineering students. His earlier students remember the methodologically well-structured lectures and his exact blackboard painting.

He was also involved in the development and implementation of application-oriented research. In close cooperation with experts in practice and with university lecturers of technical subjects, problems from the field of mechanical engineering, metallurgy and transport were processed using various mathematical methods from stochastics and game theory, algebra and number theory, graph theory and network planning technology, from linear and non-linear optimization. In this context, he also obtained his habilitation (Doctorate B) as Dr. sc. nat. as well as the Facultas Docendi as a prerequisite .

Manteuffel presented an extensive journalistic work as the author of the chapters "Mathematics and Operations Research" in volumes 1 and 4 of the knowledge store for technologists and as the editor of the 9-volume textbook series mathematics for technical universities (with licensed editions in Switzerland ). He played an important role as co-founder, editor and author of the modularized textbook series mathematics for engineers, scientists, economists and farmers ( MINÖL ), the 27 volumes and 4 exercise volumes of which have also been published as licensed editions in Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany. This series was continued after German reunification . He is the responsible editor or author of 17 of the 44 volumes. Even the history of science posts back to Manteuffel. He is also the author and co-author of popular science books .

Memberships and honors (selection)

• Membership and close cooperation in the Chamber of Technology (KDT)
• Member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI), Senior Citizens Working Group
• Gold Humboldt Medal, awarded twice: for his work on the applications of mathematics and for his part as a member of the editorial board of MINÖL
• Medal of Honor of the Mathematical Society
• Decoration of honor from the VDI for 40 years of membership
• Honorary title Magdeburg of the year 2011 for his theoretical basis in the rediscovery of the "Gruson disk", one of the first calculating machines in the world .

Publications (selection)

• Werner Groth, Karl Manteuffel: Analytical geometry of the plane. Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1956.
• Vector analysis - after the corresponding chapters of the higher mathematics lecture held at the University of Heavy Mechanical Engineering, Magdeburg. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1957.
• Matrices and determinants - after the corresponding chapters of the lecture Higher Mathematics held at the University of Heavy Engineering, Magdeburg. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1957.
• Karl Manteuffel, Egon Seiffart: Introduction to linear algebra and linear optimization. BSB Teubner, Leipzig; Verlag Chemie, Weinheim / Bergstrasse 1970.
• Heinz Glade, Karl Manteuffel: It all began with the abacus - from the cultural history of computing devices. With chapter illustrations by Erhard Schreier and text drawings by Hasso Seyferth. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig; Jena; Berlin 1973.
• Horst Kadner (eds.), Egon Seiffart, Karl Manteuffel: Linear optimization. BSB Teubner, Leipzig 1974, Harri Deutsch publishing house, Thun; Frankfurt / Main 1981, 2nd edition 1982, 3rd edition 1985, 4th edition 1988, 5th edition 1991.
• Karl Manteuffel, Egon Seiffart, Klaus Vetters: Lineare Algebra. BSB Teubner, Leipzig 1975, 2nd edition 1978, published by Harri Deutsch, Thun; Frankfurt / Main 1978, 3rd edition 1980, 4th edition 1982, 5th edition 1985, 6th edition 1987, 7th edition 1988.
• H. Erfurth (ed.), Karl Manteuffel, Dieter Stumpe: Game theory. BSB Teubner, Leipzig 1977, 2nd edition 1979, 3rd edition 1990, ISBN 978-3-322-00724-7 .
• Jürgen Flachsmeyer, Uwe Feiste, Karl Manteuffel: Mathematics and ornamental art forms. Teubner, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 978-3-322-00679-0 ; Harri Deutsch publishing house, Thun; Frankfurt / Main 1978, ISBN 978-3-8171-1157-2 .
• K. Manteuffel (Ed.), Karl-Heinz Gärtner: Analysis in questions and exercises. Teubner, Stuttgart; Leipzig 1995, ISBN 978-3-8154-2088-1 .
• Karl Manteuffel (eds.), Ernst-Adam Pforr, Winfried Schirotzek: Differential and integral calculus for functions with one variable. 9th edition. Teubner, Stuttgart; Leipzig 1993, ISBN 978-3-8154-2040-9 .
• Karl Manteuffel (eds.), Karl-Heinz Körber, Ernst-Adam Pforr: Integral calculus for functions with several variables. 8th edition. Teubner, Stuttgart; Leipzig 1993, ISBN 978-3-8154-2042-3 .
• Karl Manteuffel (Ed.), Horst Wenzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Analysis - Exercises. 6 volumes. Teubner, Leipzig 1982–1984.
• Karl Manteuffel (Ed.), Horst Wenzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Exercises for Analysis. 11 volumes. Teubner, Stuttgart; Leipzig 1987–1999.

literature

• Alfred Göpfert : Mathematical optimization in general vector spaces. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1973.
• Eberhard Girlich: Prof. Dr. Karl Manteuffel - On the golden jubilee 2004. [1]
• Karl Manteuffel: Borbély, Georg Samu (el) (von) . Magdeburg University Archives, 2005.
• Andreas Löhne, Thomas Riedrich, Christiane Tammer (Eds.): Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Alfred Göpfert. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute for Mathematics, Halle / Saale 2009.
• Karl-Heinz Kaiser: Magdeburg of the year 2011. Magdeburger Volksstimme, December 9, 2011 [2]
• Frank Fuchs-Kittowski , Werner Kriesel (Ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Vienna: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, PL Academic Research 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978-3-653 -06277-9 (e-book).

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Manteuffel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Manteuffel: To measure a gender of positive ternary square shapes. Dissertation, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Halle 1954.
2. ^ Karl Manteuffel: About some problems in industrial practice and their mathematical treatment. Habilitation thesis (dissertation B), Technical University Otto von Guericke Magdeburg 1962.