Klaus Peters (publisher)

Klaus Peters (* 1937 ; † July 7, 2014 in Sherborn , Massachusetts ) was a German mathematician and publisher.

Career

Peters received his doctorate in 1962 under Reinhold Remmert at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg ( on holomorphic and meromorphic mappings of certain compact manifolds ). After that he first embarked on an academic career, but in 1964 he switched to the Springer Verlag as a mathematics editor , succeeding Friedrich Karl Schmidt . He was able to greatly expand the American business, whereby Richard Courant and Remmert also arranged numerous contacts for him. Peters helped found the Lecture Notes in Mathematics and Mathematical Intelligencer , and became one of Springer's directors in 1972. He stayed with Springer until 1979 when he and his wife Alice Peters founded their Birkhäuser Boston branch for Birkhäuser Verlag . There he founded the series Perspectives in Mathematics . In 1984 the publishing house was sold to Springer and Klaus Peters went to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ( Academic Press ), to whom Peters originally wanted to sell Birkhäuser. He founded HBJ's Cambridge, Massachusetts branch, published math, computer science, and theoretical physics, and started the Perspectives in Mathematics series . In 1992 he founded their own publishing house AK Peters with his wife Alice (who was responsible for finances and organization) . In 2010 they sold him to Taylor and Francis, who incorporated him into CRC Press.

He had been married to Alice Merkers since 1972, whom he had hired as a mathematics lecturer at Springer in New York that same year. She built up the IT program at Springer.

Fonts

• with Walter Kaufmann-Bühler, Alice Peters: Mathematicians love books. In: Lynn Steen (Ed.): Mathematics tomorrow. Springer, New York NY et al. 1981, ISBN 0-387-90564-2 , pp. 121-126.
• Why Publish Mathematics? In: Volker R. Remmert , Ute Schneider (Hrsg.): Publication strategies of a discipline. Mathematics in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic (= Mainz Studies in Book Studies. 19). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05805-6 , pp. 213-220, (reprinted in: Notices of the American Mathematical Society . Volume 56, No. 7, August 2009, pp. 819-822, ( Digitalisat ); German: Why do maths? In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung . Volume 22, No. 3, 2014, pp. 182–185, doi : 10.1515 / dmvm-2014-0071 ).

literature

• Sigurdur Helgason , Dana Scott , Alice Peters, David Mumford : Remembering Klaus Peters. In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Volume 62, No. 3, March 2015, pp. 264–268, ( digitized version )
• Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson: Klaus Peters. (Obituary). In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Volume 61, No. 11, December 2014, pp. 1360-1361.

Web links

• Mathematical publisher Klaus Peters Dies Unexpectedly , obituary at the MAA, July 16, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Peters in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)