- Albrecht Beutelspacher
Albrecht Beutelspacher (born
June 5 ,1950 ) is a German mathematician.He studied 1969-1973 math, physics and philosophy at the
University of Tübingen and received his PhD 1976 from the University of Mainz. His PhD advisor was Judita Cofman. From 1982-1985 he was an associate professor at the University of Mainz and from 1985-1988 he worked for a research department of theSiemens AG . Since 1988 he is a full professor for geometry and discrete mathematics at theUniversity of Giessen . He became a well-known popularizer of mathematics in Germany by authoring several books in the field of popular science and recreational math and founding Germany's first math museum, theMathematikum . He received several awards for his contributions to popularizing mathematics. He has a math column in the German popular science magazinBild der Wissenschaft and moderates a popular math series for the TV-Channel BR- (educational TV).Books
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*Cryptology. Spectrum
*with Lynn Batten: The Theory of finite linear Spaces. Cambridge University Press
*with Uta Rosenbaum: Projective Geometry: From Foundations to Applications.Cambridge University Press
*Lineare Algebra. Vieweg, Wiesbaden 1994, 6. ergänzte Aufl. 2003, ISBN 3-528-56508-X
*Einführung in die endliche Geometrie I. Blockpläne. B.I. Wissenschaftsverlag
*Einführung in die endliche Geometrie II. Projektive Räume. B.I. Wissenschaftsverlag
*Diskrete Mathematik für Einsteiger. Viewegpopular science
*Pasta all´infinito. Meine italienische Reise in die Mathematik. 2. Auflage. C.H. Beck, München 2000, ISBN 3-406-45404-6
*Luftschlösser und Hirngespinste. Vieweg, Braunschweig und Wiesbaden 1986
* with Bernhard Petri: Der goldene Schnitt. 2. Auflage. Spektrum, Heidelberg, Berlin, Oxford 1996, ISBN 3-86025-404-9
*Geheimsprachen. Geschichte und Techniken. 3. Auflage. C.H. Beck, München 2002, ISBN 3-406-49046-8
*In Mathe war ich immer schlecht. 3. Auflage. Vieweg, Braunschweig und Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-528-26783-6
*Christian und die Zahlenkünstler. Eine Reise in die wundersame Welt der Mathematik. C.H. Beck, München 2005, ISBN 3-406-52708-6References
* [http://www.beutelspacher.info/ Albrecht Beutelspacher's homepage]
* [http://www.stiftung-teubner-leipzig.de/teubner-preis.htm Benedictus-Gotthelf-Teubner-Förderpreis]
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