Willibald Dörfler

Willibald Dörfler (born June 20, 1944 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian mathematician . From 1993 to 1999 he was rector of the University of Klagenfurt .

Life

Willibald Dörfler studied after graduation in 1962 in St. Poelten at the University of Vienna , where he in 1967 with a dissertation on continuous uniform distribution doctorate , doctoral supervisor was Edmund Hlawka . A year later he passed the teaching examination for mathematics and physics .

From 1968 he was an assistant at the Technical University of Vienna , where he joined in 1973 in the field of mathematics habilitated . In 1974 he was appointed full professor of mathematics with a special focus on didactics at what was then the University of Education in Klagenfurt , where he stayed until his retirement in 2012. In the academic year 1990/91 he was prorector at what is now the University of Klagenfurt and in the academic years 1991/92 and 1992/93 prorector. In 1993 he was elected rector of the University of Klagenfurt , followed by Winfried Bernward Müller in 1999 .

He was visiting professor at Moscow University (1970), Vanderbilt University in Nashville (1979 and 2001), Kassel University (1983), Rutgers University in New Brunswick (2000) and La Trobe University in Melbourne (2001) .

His areas of work include the didactics and philosophy of mathematics, in particular the cognitive development of concepts, the psychological and epistemological status of mathematical objects as well as semiotic aspects of mathematics. He also headed the doctoral college "Mathematical Education in the Information Technology Age" and was active in the training and further education of mathematics teachers.

In May 2017 he received his golden doctoral degree from the University of Vienna.

Willibald Dörfler is married and has three children.

Publications (selection)

• 1973: Graph theory for computer scientists , together with Jörg R. Mühlbacher , De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 978-3-11-003946-7 / ISBN 978-3-11-188363-2 / ISBN 978-3-11 -083572-4
• 1977/78: Mathematics for computer scientists , 2 volumes, Hanser-Verlag Vienna / Munich
  • Volume 1: Finite Methods and Algebra , 1977, ISBN 978-3-446-12365-6
  • Volume 2: Methods from Analysis , 1978, ISBN 978-3-446-12366-3
• 1980: Interactions between computer science and mathematics , together with Helmut Schauer , Oldenbourg-Verlag, Vienna / Munich 1980, series of publications by the Austrian Computer Society, Volume 9, ISBN 978-3-486-24451-9
• 1988: Introduction to mathematics for computer scientists , together with Werner Peschek, revised edition of the two-volume work Mathematics for computer scientists , Hanser-Verlag, Vienna / Munich, ISBN 978-3-446-15112-3
• 1998: Ernst von Glasersfeld - constructivism instead of epistemology , together with Josef Mitterer , Drava-Verlag, Klagenfurt 1998, ISBN 978-3-85435-302-7
• 2013: Fantasy and Construction of Possibilities: Approaches from Art and Mathematics , together with Manfred Bockelmann , Wieser-Verlag, Klagenfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-99029-085-9

Web links

• Publications by Willibald Dörfler in the Mathematics Education Database (MathEduc Database) of the FIZ Karlsruhe
• Willibald Dörfler in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
• Willibald Dörfler in the Madipedia of the Society for Didactics of Mathematics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} UNI Klagenfurt: Willibald Dörfler . Retrieved August 15, 2017.
2. ↑ Willibald Dörfler in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} University of Vienna: Awarding of the Golden Doctoral Diploma 2017 ( Memento from August 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ aau.at: Em.Univ.-Prof. Mag. DDr. Willibald Dörfler . Retrieved August 15, 2017.
5. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Stefan Dörfler feverishly with the stock exchanges and the KAC . Article dated April 2, 2017, accessed August 21, 2017.