Eberhard Knobloch

Eberhard Knobloch ( born November 6, 1943 in Görlitz ) is a German science and mathematics historian.

Knobloch studied from 1962 to 1967 Classical Philology and Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin, after which he passed his state examination as a high school teacher and already began as a high school teacher in the classical languages ​​Goethe Gymnasium in Berlin before 1970 as a research assistant in the field of history of science back to the TU Berlin went where in 1972 he was a PhD with a thesis on Leibniz ' Combinatorics with Christoph Scriba.

From 1973 he was professor of mathematics at the Pedagogical University Berlin. In 1976 he qualified as a professor in Berlin and was a visiting scientist in Oxford, London and Edinburgh. Since 1976 he is head of the mathematical parts of the Academy Edition of the Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( and later also of the technical- scientific parts). In 1981 he was appointed professor of history of science at the Technical University of Berlin (since 2002 professor at the academy ); Retirement in 2009. 1984 he was a visiting professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. Since 1999 he has been a regular visiting professor at the University of Northwest China. He was also a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

In addition to the Leibniz Edition, he also oversaw the Tschirnhaus edition of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, involved in the Kepler - Edition. He is also director of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Centre of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He also addressed, among others, with Renaissance technology ( such as the military engineer Mariano Taccola ), the notebooks of Leonhard Euler and Jesuit scholars such as Christopher Clavius ​​.

He was also involved in the new interpretation and decoding of the geographical location information in the geography of Ptolemy by the Berlin geodesics Dieter Lelgemann.

He is a member of the International Academy of the History of Sciences in Paris ( corresponding member since 1984, member since 1988, from 2001 to 2005 as Vice President and then the President), since 1996 the Leopoldina, corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, member of the Academia Scientarum Europaea since 1997 and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. From 2001 to 2005 he was president of the German National Committee for the History of Science. In 2006 he became president of the European Society for the History of Sciences.

Writings

  • The mathematical studies of GW Leibniz on combinatorics. Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa, Volume 11, 1973, text band to a band 16, 1976.
  • The beginning of the theory of determinants. Leibniz posthumous studies on the determinants calculus. Hildesheim 1980 Arbor Scientiarum B, Volume 2
  • With Folkerts, Karin Reich: Mass, number and weight: Mathematics as a key to understanding the world and world domination. 2nd edition Wiesbaden 2001.
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