Wolfgang Eichhorn (mathematician)
Wolfgang Eichhorn (born August 18, 1933 in Ansbach ) is a German business mathematician, economist and professor emeritus for economics (in particular: economic theory ) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) , now KIT: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .
Scientific life and work
Wolfgang Eichhorn studied mathematics and economics at the Universities of Würzburg and Munich . In 1954 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg . PhD in mathematics in 1962 at the University of Würzburg . He completed his economics studies in 1964 with a diploma. In 1966 he completed his habilitation in mathematics.
His scientific work focuses on mathematics: algebra, functional equations; in economics: production theory, price theory via game theory, growth theory, distribution theory; in statistics: measurement concepts and measurements in business; in insurance science: underwriting risk, macroeconomic aspects of risk management.
Wolfgang Eichhorn's scientific work includes around 200 papers in international journals (including the leading journals Aequationes Mathematicae , American Economic Review , Archive of Mathematics , Bio Science , Econometrica , Journal for pure and applied mathematics , Journal of Economic Theory , Journal of Mathematical Economics , Mathematical Methods of Operations Research , Mathematische Zeitschrift , Social Choice and Welfare ) and 15 books (publishers: Addison-Wesley, Springer Verlag and others).
Visiting professorships took him to the University of Bonn , University of British Columbia (Vancouver), University of California, Berkeley , University of Southern California (Los Angeles), University of Waterloo , WU Vienna .
He worked as a reviewer for the Federal Cartel Office , the German Research Foundation , the Munich Reinsurance Company , the KIT's Interfacultative Institute for Entrepreneurship and for numerous other institutions, in particular scientific publishers.
On his 60th birthday (1993), W. Erwin Diewert ( UBC ), Klaus Spremann ( University of St. Gallen ) and Frank Stehling ( University of Ulm ) published the commemorative publication Mathematical Modeling in Economics (Springer-Verlag). The volume contains 67 articles on the title topic, as well as the list of publications by Wolfgang Eichhorn.
Honors
- 1993: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Economics at Ulm University ,
- 1999: Honorary doctorate from the Faculté des Sciences Économiques et Sociales of the Université de Friborg ,
- 2001: Honorary member of the Society for Operations Research ,
- 2002: Honorary member of the Austrian Society for Operations Research ,
- 2010: Gold Medal of Honor from the Vienna University of Economics and Business .
Books (selection)
- Theory of the homogeneous production function. Springer-Verlag, Berlin a. a. 1970
- Vertical pricing models. Publisher Anton Hain, Meisenheim 1973
- with Joachim Voeller: Theory of the Price Index. Springer-Verlag, Berlin a. a. 1976
- Functional Equations in Economics. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts 1978
- The magical Neunagon. Environment and security in an economy. Publisher Anton Hain, Frankfurt 1990
- Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality. Anthology, editor and author. Springer-Verlag Berlin u. a. 1994
- with Dirk Solte: The House of Cards World Financial System. Review, analysis, outlook. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 2009
- edited with Götz W. Werner and Lothar Friedrich: The basic income. Appreciation, evaluations, ways. KIT Scientific Publ., Karlsruhe 2012
- with Winfried Gleißner: Mathematics and Methodology for Economics. Applications, Problems and Solutions. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Heidelberg, New York a. a. 2016
- Edited with Gerhard Gnann: 1,000 of the best 70,000 poems, commandments, sayings, quotations from Aachen to cytotoxicity. edition fischer, Frankfurt 2016 (1st edition), 2017 (2nd edition), 2018 (3rd edition)
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Eichhorn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Acknowledgment on the occasion of Eichhorn's retirement in issue 4/2001 of the UniKaTH magazine of the University of Karlsruhe (TH), PDF
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 143 , 646
- ↑ Dissertation: Function theory in algebras over the real number field and its applications to partial differential equations
- ↑ The topic of the diploma thesis he had to draw from an urn: The taxation of alcohol in Germany from 1871 - 1945
- ↑ Habilitation thesis: On the multiplicative mappings of finite-dimensional algebras into commutative semigroups
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eichhorn, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German business mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ansbach |