Moritz Epple

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Moritz Epple in Oberwolfach , 2010

Moritz Epple (born May 7, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian of mathematics and science.

Life

Moritz Epple studied mathematics, philosophy and physics at the University of Tübingen on a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , where he obtained his physics diploma in 1987 and his doctorate in mathematical physics in 1991. He then worked as an assistant for the history of mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Mainz , where he completed his habilitation in 1998. From 2001 to 2003 he was head of the department for the history of natural sciences and technology at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2003 he has been a professor at the University of Frankfurt and head of the working group for modern history of science at the historical seminar there. He was a guest resident a. a. at the Dibner Institute for the History of Sciences and Technology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the Max Planck Society in Berlin.

His habilitation thesis on the history of knot theory was published in 1999 ("The emergence of knot theory - contexts and constructions of a modern mathematical theory", he also wrote the article on knot theory in Ioan James (ed.) "History of Topology"). He also dealt with the history of basic analysis (article "History of the basics of analysis 1860 - 1930" in Jahnke (Hrsg.) "History of Analysis" 1999) for example with Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer and mathematical applied research in Germany in World War II. Another area of ​​work is the critical work of Felix Hausdorff and Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking academic culture.

From 2000 to 2001 he was a Heisenberg fellow . He was a board member of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology and co-editor of NTM ( Journal for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine ). Since 2013 he has been co-editor of the journal Science in Context . He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Beijing in 2002 ("From Quaternions to cosmology - spaces of constant curvature 1873–1925"). In 2015, Epple and his Frankfurt team received the media prize of the German Mathematicians Association for the exhibition Transcending Tradition . Moritz Epple was elected a member ( matriculation no. 7715 ) of the Leopoldina on November 26, 2016 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Origin of Knot Theory: Contexts and Constructions of a Modern Mathematical Theory. Vieweg Verlag: Wiesbaden, 1999, ISBN 978-3-322-80296-5 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-322-80295-8
  • Geniuses, ideas, institutions, mathematical workshops. Forms of the history of mathematics , Mathematical semester reports, Vol. 47, 2000. pp. 131–163.
  • Calculating, measuring, guiding. War research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research, 1937–1945 , in: Helmut Maier (ed.): Armaments research in National Socialism: Organization, mobilization and delimitation of the technical sciences. Wallstein: Göttingen, 2002, pp. 305–356.
  • From Quaternions to Cosmology: Spaces of Constant Curvature, approx. 1873-1925 , in: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing 2002, Vol. III: Invited Lectures, pp. 935-945.
  • Knot invariants in Vienna and Princeton during the 1920s: Epistemic Configurations of Mathematical Research , Science in Context 17 (2004), pp. 131-164.
  • Orbits of asteroids, a braid and the first link invariant , Mathematical Intelligencer, 1998, No. 1, p. 48
  • Felix Hausdorff's Considered Empiricism , in: José Ferreiros, Jeremy J. Gray (eds.): The Architecture of Modern Mathematics: Essays in History and Philosophy. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006, pp. 263-289.
  • Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking academic culture. Edited by Moritz Epple and Birgit Bergmann. Springer Verlag: Heidelberg, 2008.
    • English edition: Bergmann, Epple, Ruti Ungar (editor) Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture , Springer Verlag: Heidelberg, 2012.
  • Between Timelessness and Historiality: On the Dynamics of the Epistemic Objects of Mathematics , Isis 102 (2011), pp. 481-493.
  • as editor with Johannes Fried , Raphael Gross and Janus Gudian: “Politicization of Science.” Jewish scientists and their opponents at the University of Frankfurt am Main before and after 1933. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1438-2 .

literature

  • Leopoldina Newly Elected Members 2016, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2017, p. 12 ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes: Annual report 2017 , p. 79.
  2. ↑ See DMV press release and the exhibition website .
personal data
SURNAME Epple, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart