Norbert Herrmann

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Norbert Herrmann (* 1943 in Lomnitz, Silesia ) is a German mathematician .

Life

With his wife Gabriele, a math and physics teacher at the Burgdorfer Gymnasium, he lived in Immensen , where their children Ruth and Daniel grew up.

In 1970 Herrmann passed the state examination in mathematics at the Leibniz University of Hanover , received his doctorate there in 1982 under Helmut Epheser (dissertation: On the convergence of the grating process ) and worked as an academic senior counselor at the Institute for Applied Mathematics (IfAM) there until 2007. His calculation of parking became famous, for example in his book Mathematics is Everywhere and in the introduction to his Higher Mathematics for Engineers, Physicists and Mathematicians . In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from Brunel University in Uxbridge, UK .

In 2008 he settled in Meißen with his wife . In 2014 the couple accompanied the special exhibition Leonardo da Vinci's machines in Meissen's city museum.

He is one of the math ambassadors for the Rechnen Foundation.

Fonts

  • with EP Stephan: FEM and BEM, introduction. Inst. F. Angew. Mathematics, Univ. Hanover, 1991.
  • with J. Siefer, EP Stephan, R. Wagner: Mathematics and Environment. Theodor Oppermann Verlag Hannover, 1994.
  • Higher mathematics for engineers I, II, collection of exercises. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich, 1995.
  • Higher mathematics for engineers, physicists and mathematicians. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich, 2004, 2nd edition 2007.
  • Math is everywhere. Oldenbourg Verlag München, 2005, 2nd edition 2005, 3rd edition 2007, 4th edition 2013.
  • Can dogs count? Oldenbourg Verlag Munich, 2007.
  • Math is really everywhere. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich, 2009.
  • Mathematics for natural scientists. Spektrum Verlag Heidelberg, 2012.
  • The Beauty of Everyday Mathematics. Springer Verlag Berlin, 2012.
  • Math and God and the World. Springer Spectrum Berlin 2014.
  • Math where you don't expect it. Oldenbourg 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Herrmann in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Norbert Herrmann at Stiftung Rechnen
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lomnitz , Silesia