Walter Robert Fuchs

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Walter Robert Fuchs (born March 18, 1937 in Princeton , † July 21, 1976 in Munich ) was a German non-fiction author and in adult education on television.

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Fuchs was born in Princeton , where his father served as a bank clerk for Einstein and other prominent German emigrants. He went to school in Memmingen (Abitur 1956), trained as an electrician and precision mechanic and then studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich as well as physics, mathematics and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He received his doctorate cum laude in 1961 with a dissertation on logical problems of classical and quantum theoretical mechanics . Instead of completing his habilitation on Hegel's logic as planned , he switched to science journalism. In 1962 he became the business editor for the television study program of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . From 1965 he headed the editorial department for applied science and technology and built up the “ Telekolleg ”. Fuchs lived in Munich. He died of cancer when he was only 39.

Walter Robert Fuchs is known for numerous non-fiction books, some of which are widely distributed internationally, especially on mathematical and scientific topics. Knaur's book on modern mathematics was translated into fourteen languages ​​and had high editions at a time when New Mathematics was being propagated in the 1960s, which wanted to deal with the concepts of set theory in elementary schools.

Fuchs, called "Jimmy" by his friends because of his birth in the USA, was a trained draftsman and provides many of the templates for the illustrations for his non-fiction books himself. During his time in Munich, he played the clarinet and saxophone in various jazz bands. In 1972 his satire The Dog Planet was published , which deals with the life of dogs with people from the point of view of dogs.

bibliography

  • Logical investigations into problems of classical and quantum theoretical mechanics (dissertation) 1961
  • Knaur's book of modern mathematics. Droemer / Knaur, 1966, 1972 (also translated into English: Mathematics for the modern mind, MacMillan 1967), table of contents and preface .
  • Knaur's book of modern physics. Droemer / Knaur 1965.
  • Knaur's book of thinking machines - information theory and cybernetics. Knaur 1968, table of contents and foreword .
  • Knaur's book of electronics.
  • Parents discover the new mathematics: quantities and numbers. 1970. ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from June 15 to 21, 1970 )
  • Knaur's book about new learning. 1969, table of contents and preface .
  • Parents discover the new logic. Munich / Zurich 1971
  • And Mohammed is their prophet - the Arabs and their world. 1975.
  • Brain games from the drawing board - an introduction to modern philosophy. Knaur 1972 (on analytical philosophy).
  • Before the earth moved - a world history of physics. DVA 1975.
  • Formula and Fantasy - A World History of Mathematics. DVA 1977 (the book remained unfinished and essentially only deals with antiquity), rororo 1979.
  • Life under distant suns? Droemer / Knaur 1973, table of contents and introduction .
  • The dog planet - a Canedusian history of thought. Droemer / Knauer 1973.
as editor
  • Poetry of our mid-century , Kösel Verlag 1965 (with interpretations by Fuchs).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kosch, Lang, Feilchenfeldt German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century , KG Saur 2001
  2. ^ Died: Walter R. Fuchs . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1976, p. 132 ( online - 26 July 1976 ).
  3. ↑ As early as 1970, his books had a total circulation of 750,000. Bridge to the layman . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1970, pp. 196-198 ( online - 4 May 1970 ).
  4. ^ Peter Glotz: The interior of power: political diary 1976-1978 . Steinhausen, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-8205-6525-6 , p. 66-67 .
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Walter Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Princeton
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1976
Place of death Munich