Karl Seebach (mathematician)

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Karl Seebach

Karl Seebach (born June 28, 1912 in Munich ; † July 18, 2007 there ) was a German mathematician and didactician .

Life

Seebach studied mathematics and physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate there in 1934 under Heinrich Tietze and Arnold Sommerfeld . The title of his dissertation is On expanding the domain of differentiable functions . In 1941 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Munich , where he previously worked as an assistant.

After the war, he was first a teacher at the Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium in Munich , where he also at the local study seminar was involved in teacher training. From 1967 he was a lecturer at the Pedagogical University in Pasing and in 1977 was appointed to the newly created chair for didactics of mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He continued to work there after his retirement in autumn 1980.

From 1972 to 1981 Seebach was chairman of the MNU . In addition, he wrote numerous textbooks for mathematics lessons and participated in the design of the national mathematics competition .

In 1998 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Works

  • By expanding the definition range of functions that can be differentiated several times. Reprint from the Bayer meeting report . Akad. D. Knowledge , Year 1941, pp. 67–90. ISBN 3-7696-4185-X
  • Suggestions for the structure of analytical geometry in vector treatment. Munich, Ehrenwirth, 1965.
  • with Friedrich Barth: Suggestions for the treatment of the geometrical images in the plane. Munich, Ehrenwirth, 1968.
  • with Reinhold Federle: Introduction to Algebra. 2 volumes, Munich, 1962 a. 1966.

literature

  • Rudolf Fritsch : Prof. Dr. Karl Seebach . In: Journal of the Förderverein des math. Institute of the LMU , issue 17, Jan. 2008, p. 8 ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Seebach in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Living contemporary history - our emeriti on the website of the mathematical institute of the LMU
  3. ↑ Information service of the LMU 1/99
personal data
SURNAME Seebach, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and didactician
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2007
Place of death Munich