Peter Burmeister

Peter Burmeister, 1996

Peter Burmeister (born July 16, 1941 in Berlin ; † January 20, 2019 in Reinheim ) was a German mathematician and professor in the mathematics department of the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Scientific career

Peter Burmeister studied mathematics at the Free University of Berlin with an exchange year at the University of Münster . In 1966 he was at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn by Jürgen Schmidt graduated with the thesis about the thicknesses and degrees of independence bases of free algebras . In 1971 he became of tungsten Schwabhäuser at the University of Bonn habilitation with the work Primitive classes of partial algebras. In the same year he was appointed mathematics professor at the TU Darmstadt . He retired in 2004.

Act

Peter Burmeister's research interests were in general algebra , especially partial algebras. In addition, he was also interested in order and association theory , formal concept analysis and conceptual knowledge processing , basics of geometry and, in discrete mathematics , especially graph theory .

His most important publication according to his own information is A model theoretic oriented approach to partial algebras with more than 500 pages.

Together with Rudolf Wille he worked in the general algebra group and the concept analysis research group. He was a founding member of the Ernst Schröder Center for Conceptual Knowledge Processing and was a member of its board.

Peter Burmeister developed the software ConImp (Contexts & Implications) on the basis of the algorithm developed by Bernhard Ganter for the calculation of a set of terms. In this way, formal contexts can be edited and evaluated, in particular by calculating the canonical basis and by exploring features  - even if the knowledge is incomplete. Findings have been incorporated that were developed by Burmeister's doctoral student Richard Holzer in his dissertation Methods of formal concept analysis in the treatment of incomplete knowledge .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Peter Burmeister - Obituaries. VRM Trauer, January 26, 2019, accessed on February 6, 2019 . 
2. ^ ^{A b c} Peter Burmeister: List of Publications Peter Burmeister. Retrieved May 10, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Peter Burmeister. In: genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Mathematics Genealogy Project, accessed April 28, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Peter Burmeister: A model theoretic oriented approach to partial algebras. Introduction to theory and application of partial algebras. Part I . In: Mathematical Research . tape 32 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 978-3-05-500176-5 ( Online [PDF; 2,3 MB ; accessed on January 25, 2019]). (Part II, Structural Induction on Partial Algebras was written by Horst Reichel . See foreword in Part I.)
   
5. ^ Ernst Schröder Center. The board of directors. Archived from the original on June 9, 2013 ; Retrieved April 28, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Peter Burmeister. In: mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de. Mathematics Department of the TU Darmstadt , May 4, 2002, accessed on April 28, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Richard Holzer: Methods of formal concept analysis in the treatment of incomplete knowledge . Dissertation. Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2001, ISBN 978-3-8265-9092-4 ( Online [PDF; 1,2 MB ; accessed on May 22, 2014]).