Claus Peter Ortlieb Explained

Claus Peter Ortlieb (1 May 1947, in Reinbek – 15 September 2019) was a German mathematician (PhD), critic of work, critic of political economy, and a critic of contemporary science, especially regarding its use of mathematics.[1] [2] [3] He was an editor for the journal EXIT!.[4]

Ortlieb studied the University of Hamburg where he earned his doctorate 1976 under the supervision of Lothar Collatz.[5] The name of his dissertation was Dualität und Näherungsverfahren bei konvexen Steuerungsproblemen (English: "Duality and approximation methods in convex control problems").[6] Ortlieb taught at the University of Hamburg as a professor at the faculty of mathematics from 1985 to 2011. Ortlieb was one of the most known names of the writers in the magazine Krisis among Robert Kurz, Roswitha Scholz, Ernst Lohoff and Norbert Trenkle. Other than his mathematical work, Ortlieb was critical against contemporary science and its problem with mathematical models, particularly within biology and economics. Ortlieb also wrote polemic articles in the paper Konkret. Ortlieb died on 15 September 2019 at the age of 72.[7]

Selection of Ortliebs Publications

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maguier . Alexander . Ökonomie ist eigentlich keine Wissenschaft . Economics is not actually a science . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230201111340/https://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/ortlieb/FASInterview.html . 1 February 2023 . 14 January 2024 . math.uni-hamburg.de . de.
  2. Web site: 15 April 2018 . Claus Peter Ortlieb Η χαμένη αθωότητα της παραγωγικότητας . Claus Peter Ortlieb The lost innocence of productivity . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231126221026/https://www.iforinterview.com/claus-peter-ortlieb-the-lost-innocence-of-productivity/ . 26 November 2023 . 14 January 2024 . IforInterview . el.
  3. Book: Ullrich . Peter . Mathematik und Gesellschaft . 2018 . 978-3-658-16122-4 . 31–37 . Reaktion auf Claus Peter Ortlieb – Bewertungen in Moral und Gesellschaft mittels Mathematik . 10.1007/978-3-658-16123-1_4 . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-16123-1_4.
  4. Web site: Persönliche Homepage Claus Peter Ortlieb . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231024115058/https://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/ortlieb/ . 24 October 2023 . 14 January 2024 . math.uni-hamburg.de . de.
  5. Web site: Claus Peter Ortlieb . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231028051356/https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=21845 . 28 October 2023 . 14 January 2024 . Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  6. Web site: Ortlieb . Claus Peter . 1976 . Dualitat und naherungsverfahren bei konvexen steuerungsprobleme .
  7. Web site: Hunger . Jörg . En memoriam . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200114103708/https://exit-lesekreis-hh.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/09/Schmetterling-Verlag-En-memoriam-C.P.Ortlieb-_-Die-Grenzen-b%C3%BCrgerlichen-Denkens.pdf . 14 January 2020 . 14 January 2024 . exit-lesekreis-hh.de . de.