Peter Schreiber (mathematician)

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Peter Schreiber (born June 23, 1938 in Dresden ) is a German mathematician and mathematician who deals with the fundamentals of mathematics, geometry and the history of mathematics.

Schreiber studied mathematics from 1957 at the University of Greifswald , where he received his doctorate in 1962 under Günter Asser ( investigations on the models of type theory ). In 1976 he completed his habilitation ( PhD B ) and was professor at the University of Greifswald for geometry and the fundamentals of mathematics until 2003.

He dealt with mathematical logic and basic research, for example the logic of algorithmic languages, constructive mathematics, syntax and semantics of image languages, with geometry, especially geometric constructions from the point of view of computer science and applications in art and architecture, and the history of mathematics.

In the history of mathematics, he dealt with the history of geometry (including Albrecht Dürer , Euclid ), early computing devices and algorithms, and local history of mathematics in Greifswald.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991, he initiated the foundation of the Mathematics History section of the German Mathematicians Association. Peter Schreiber was a well-known popularizer of mathematics. In addition to the relevant publications, he gave numerous lectures, also abroad, on the relationship between mathematics and literature, the fine arts, architecture, music and mathematics as a topic of philately.

Fonts (selection)

  • Fundamentals of Mathematics , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1977, 2nd edition 1984
  • Theory of Geometric Constructions , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1975
  • Basics of constructive geometry , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1984
  • with Christoph J. Scriba 5000 years of geometry , Springer Verlag 2000, 2003; Revised English translation 5000 Years of Geometry , Springer Verlag (Birkhäuser) 2015.
  • Euclid , Teubner 1987.
  • Set theory - from Cantor's heaven to theoria prima inter pares , NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 4 (1996), pp. 129–143.
  • About relationships between Heinrich Scholz and Polish logicians In: Mathematik im Wandel Volume 1, Franzbecker-Verlag Hildesheim 1999, pp. 343–359. Reprint in: History and Philosophy of Logic 20 (1999), pp. 97-109.
  • A look back at the 20th century , NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 10 (2002), pp. 40–48.
  • Mathematics and its history in the mirror of philately , Teubner 1980
  • Editor with Z. Nádeník: Kaderávek: Geometry and Art in Earlier Times , Teubner 1992
  • Introduction and commentary on Dürer's Underweysung , in R. Schoch, M. Mende, A. Scherbaum Dürer, Das Druckgraphische Werk , Volume 3, Prestel Verlag, Munich 2005
  • Albrecht Dürer's geometry from today's perspective in G. Papay (ed.): Images of Science - Science of Images , University of Rostock 2005, pp. 199–224.
  • Bildlogik , in Klaus Sachs-Hombach (Ed.): Bildwissenschaft between reflection and application , Herbert-von-Halem-Verlag, Cologne 2005, pp. 13–32.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Clerk, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden