Volker Remmert

Volker R. Remmert (* 1966 in Göttingen ) is a German historian of mathematics and science .

Volker Remmert (right) with Kirsti Andersen and Enrico Giusti , Oberwolfach 2003

Volker Remmert, son of the mathematician Reinhold Remmert , studied mathematics and history at the Universities of Freiburg , Zurich and Karlsruhe from 1987 to 1993 . In 1993 he made his mathematics diploma in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he received his doctorate in history in 1997 . In 2003 he completed his habilitation at the University of Friborg in Switzerland in Modern History and was retrained in 2006 at the University of Mainz . Until 2010 he was a private lecturer and research assistant in the working group History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, then in 2010/11 Associate Professor at the Department for Science Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. He spent research stays at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel , at the Warburg Institute in London as a Frances Yates Fellow and at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Since 2011 he has been professor for the history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal .

As a mathematician, he dealt particularly intensively with the history of mathematics under National Socialism , for example with Wilhelm Süss , the founder of the Mathematical Research Institute in Oberwolfach , and Gustav Doetsch ., And with the history of the publishing industry in the field of mathematics. He also worked on mathematics and astronomy in the early modern period, particularly iconographic and cultural-historical aspects and Jesuit scholars.

Fonts (selection)

• Ariadne threads in the scientific labyrinth: Studies on Galileo. Historiography - Mathematics - Effect (= Freiburg Studies on the Early Modern Age, Vol. 2). Lang, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-906759-58-X (dissertation).
• Dedication, explanation of the world and scientific legitimation. Cover pictures and their functions in the scientific revolution (= Wolfenbütteler Research Vol. 100). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05337-2 .
  • english Picturing the scientific revolution . St. Joseph's University Press, Philadelphia 2011, ISBN 978-0-916101-67-1 .
• with Ute Schneider : A discipline and its publishers. Disciplinary culture and the publication system of mathematics in Germany, 1871–1949 (= Mainz Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 4). Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1517-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Remmert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Wuppertal , with curriculum vitae and list of publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Among other things: Wilhelm Süss (1895-1958): About the amalgamation of university and specialist politics . In: Karen Bayer, Frank Sparing, Wolfgang Woelk (Hrsg.): Universities and colleges during National Socialism and in the early post-war period . Steiner, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08175-7 , pp. 147-166.
2. ↑ For example Mathematicians at War. Power Struggles in Nazi Germany's Mathematical Community: Gustav Doetsch and Wilhelm Süss , in: Revue d'histoire des mathématiques Vol. 5, 1999, pp. 7–59; The German Mathematicians Association in the "Third Reich" , Part 1 and 2, In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathemiker -Vereinigung Vol. 12, 2004, pp. 159–177 ( digital ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )), Pp. 223–245 ( Digital ( Memento of December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )); What's Nazi about Nazi Science? Recent Trends in the History of Science in Nazi Germany , in: Perspectives on Science Vol. 12, No. 4, 2004, pp. 454-475.
3. ↑ Volker Remmert, Ute Schneider (Hrsg.): Publication strategies of a discipline - Mathematics in the Empire and Weimar Republic (= Mainz Studies in Book Studies, Vol. 19). Wiesbaden 2008.
4. ↑ Dedication, explanation of the world and legitimization of science: Cover pictures and their functions in the Scientific Revolution , Wiesbaden 2005 (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen Bd. 110), Tycho Brahe's nose, or Atlas and Hercules and the visual legitimation of the new astronomy in the 17th century , in a magazine for Art History Vol. 66, 2003, pp. 177–206, English Visual Legitimization of Astronomy in the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries: Atlas, Hercules and Tycho's Nose , in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Vol. 38, 2007, p. 327 -362; On picturing the past: arithmetic and geometry as wings of the mind , In: Mathematical Intelligencer 2009, No. 3, p. 42ff.
5. ↑ Volker Remmert, Elisabeth Oy-Marra (ed.): "Le monde est une peinture". Jesuit Identity and the Role of Images (= Contributions to Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 7), Berlin 2011.