Walter Purkert
Walter Purkert (born January 22, 1944 in Trautenau ) is a German mathematician and mathematician.
Life
Purkert received his doctorate in 1972 with Hans Wußing at the University of Leipzig with the work The Development of the Abstract Concept of the Body . In the 1980s and 1990s he was a professor in Leipzig. He has been a research assistant and professor at the University of Bonn since the mid-1990s . There he was the coordinator of the Hausdorff Edition (edition of Felix Hausdorff's Collected Works including the philosophical and literary writings and selected texts from the estate, 10 volumes) that were published under the pseudonym Paul Mongré. He finished the biography of Hausdorff, begun by Egbert Brieskorn, after his death (volume IB of the edition). He also edited Hausdorff's correspondence (Volume IX of the edition).
Purkert wrote a standard biography of Georg Cantor with Hans-Joachim Ilgauds . Purkert also gave lectures by Felix Klein on Riemann surfaces (held in Göttingen 1891/1892). In addition, he dealt with stochastics .
Fonts
- The Hilbert problems. (Editing together with Hannelore Bernhardt , editor of the Russian original edition Pawel Sergejewitsch Alexandrow ). (Translation from Russian). Academic publishing company Geest and Portig, Leipzig 1971, 2nd edition 1979, 3rd edition 1983.
- with Jürgen vom Scheidt : Weakly correlated processes and their applications. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1980.
- with Jürgen vom Scheidt: Random Eigenvalue Problems. North Holland 1983.
- with Hans-Joachim Ilgauds : Georg Cantor. Teubner, 1985, Birkhäuser, 1987 (Vita Mathematica)
- Bridging course in mathematics for economists. Teubner, 1995, 8th edition 2014.
- with Erhard Scholz: On the state of mathematics history in Germany. 2009 (PDF; 152 kB).
- with Egbert Brieskorn (†): Felix Hausdorff biography. Volume IB of the Hausdorff Edition, Springer 2018.
- Felix Hausdorff - Paul Mongré. Mathematician - Philosopher - Man of Letters . Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn 2013.
literature
- Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X .
- Walter Purkert in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Purkert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tabular curriculum vitae of Purkert (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Purkert, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German math historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trautenau |