Thomas Beth
Thomas Beth (born November 16, 1949 in Hanover ; † August 17, 2005 in Karlsruhe ) was a German mathematician who dealt with computer science and combinatorics .
Live and act
Thomas Beth studied mathematics (as well as physics and medicine) at the University of Göttingen from 1968 to 1973 . He then received a DAAD scholarship at Ohio State University in 1973/74 and from 1974 research assistant at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg , where he received his doctorate in mathematics in 1978 under Konrad Jacobs . In 1984 he qualified as a professor there in computer science and in 1984 a professor at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London , where he was head of the faculty of computer science and statistics and a cryptography built workgroup. In 1985 he became a professor at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) , where he was co-founder (and spokesman) of the Institute for Algorithms and Cognitive Systems . In 1988 he was the founder and head of the European Institute for System Security (EISS) and organized international cryptography conferences in Burg Feuerstein early in 1982 , from which the Eurocrypt conferences later emerged.
In his habilitation, Beth dealt with Fourier transformation algorithms and then with methods of digital signal and image processing with applications, for example in medicine. After that, he mainly dealt with cryptography and most recently with quantum informatics , for which he initiated a priority program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and led a working group. He also initiated a new interdisciplinary research area in anthropomatics at the intersection of medicine, sociology and computer science.
Fonts
- with Peter Heß, Klaus Wirl: Kryptographie. Teubner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-519-02465-9 .
- Fast Fourier transform method. Teubner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-519-02363-6 .
- with Hanfried Lenz , Dieter Jungnickel : Design Theory. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1985, ISBN 3-411-01675-2 , new in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Cambridge University Press 1999, 2 volumes.
- with Gerd Leuchs (Ed.): Quantum Information Processing. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2003, ISBN 3-527-40371-X .
- Confidential communication on the internet , Scientific American, Volume 273, 1995, No. 6
literature
- Markus Grassl, Andreas Klappenecker, Martin Rötteler: In Memoriam: Thomas Beth . In: Quantum Information Processing . tape 5 , no. 1 , 2006, p. 1-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Beth in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beth, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 17, 2005 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |