Albrecht Beutelspacher Explained

Albrecht Beutelspacher (born 5 June 1950) is a German mathematician and founder of the Mathematikum. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Giessen, where he held the chair for geometry and discrete mathematics from 1988 to 2018.

Biography

Beutelspacher studied from 1969 to 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 to 1985 he was an associate professor at the University of Mainz and from 1985 to 1988 he worked at a research department of Siemens. From 1988 to 2018 he was a tenured professor for geometry and discrete mathematics at the University 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 by founding Germany's first math museum, the Mathematikum. He received several awards for his contributions to popularizing mathematics. He had a math column in the German popular science magazine Bild der Wissenschaft and moderated a popular math series for the TV Channel BR-

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(educational TV).

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