Wolfgang Kaunzner

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Wolfgang Kaunzner (born July 26, 1928 in Saaz , Czechoslovakia , † March 10, 2017 in Regensburg ) was a German mathematician.

Life

Kaunzner received his doctorate in 1954 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich under Kurt Vogel ( The arithmetic book of Johann Widmann von Eger. Its sources and its effects ). From 1957 to 1960 he was a laboratory engineer at Siemens and then a professor at the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences , where he taught mathematics, among other things, and retired in 1990.

He dealt in particular with early German algebra books (Coss) and arithmetic books as well as early modern mathematical manuscripts, among others by Christoph Rudolff , Adam Riese , Heinrich Schreiber , Johannes Widmann , and on the mathematical writings of Johannes Kepler .

He was a member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences .

Fonts

  • Adam Ries in the mirror of his algebraic manuscripts. Writings of the Adam Ries Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz, Volume 10, 1998.
  • with Röttel: Christoff Rudolff from Jauer in Silesia. Polygon Verlag, 2006.
  • On the development of mathematics in the 16th century. in Menso Folkerts , U. Lindgren (Ed.) Mathemata- Festschrift for Helmuth Gericke . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1985, pp. 247-264.
  • Editor with Hans Wußing : Coß by Adam Ries. Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1992.
  • About Johannes Widmann von Eger. A contribution to the history of arithmetic in the late Middle Ages. Publications of the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum for the History of Natural Sciences and Technology, Series C, No. 4, 1968.
  • German mathematicians of the 15th and 16th centuries and their symbolism. A bridge in mathematics from ancient times to modern times. Publications of the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum for the History of Natural Sciences and Technology, Series A, No. 90, 1971.

literature

  • Karl Röttel (editor): Work and wishes -Wolfgang Kaunzner on his 80th birthday. Polygon Verlag, 2008.
  • Karl Röttel (editor): Ad fontes Arithemticae et Algebrae, Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Kaunzner. Polygon Verlag, Buxheim / Eichstätt 1998.
  • Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaunzner in commemoration , in: Yearbook of the Adam-Ries-Bund, Volume 8, Annaberg-Buchholz 2017, pp. 5–7. ISBN 978-3-944217-31-4
  • Menso Folkerts , Wolfgang Kaunzner as scientist , in: Yearbook of the Adam-Ries-Bund, Volume 8, Annaberg-Buchholz 2017, pp. 89-103 (with list of publications). ISBN 978-3-944217-31-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Mittelbayerische Zeitung Regensburg from March 18, 2017.
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Kaunzner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Saaz
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2017
Place of death regensburg