Walter Robert Fuchs

Walter Robert Fuchs ( born March 18, 1937 in Princeton, † July 21, 1976 in Munich) was a German non-fiction author and in adult education in television.

Life and work

Fuchs was born in Princeton, where his father served as a bank clerk Einstein and other prominent German emigrants. He went to school in Memmingen ( High School 1956), was trained as an electrician and a precision mechanic and then studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich as well as physics, mathematics and philosophy at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. With a dissertation on "Logical problems of classical and quantum- theoretical mechanics " In 1961 he was cum laude doctorate. Instead, as planned, to habilitate about the logic of Hegel, he moved rather in science journalism. In 1962 he was business editor at TV - study program of the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Since 1965 he has headed the editorial staff of Applied Science and Technology, and built the "Message Group" on. Fox lived in Munich. He died at the age of 39 from cancer.

Walter Robert Fuchs is known by numerous internationally widespread non-fiction books, especially to mathematics and science subjects. Knaurs book of modern mathematics has been translated into fourteen languages ​​and experienced high volumes at a time, as in the 1960s, the new mathematics was propagated, already wanted to treat in primary schools, the concepts of set theory.

Fuchs was a trained draftsman and provides many of the originals for the illustrations of his non-fiction books himself in his time in Munich, he played clarinet and saxophone in various jazz bands. 1972 appeared his satire The Dog Planet, which has made the life of dogs with people from the point of view of dogs on the topic.

Writings

  • Logical investigations on the problems of classical and quantum theoretical mechanics ( thesis ) 1961
  • Knaurs book of modern mathematics. Droemer / Knaur, 1966, 1972 ( translated into English: Mathematics for the mind state, MacMillan 1967)
  • Knaurs book of modern physics. Droemer / Knaur 1965.
  • Knaurs Book of thinking machines - information theory and cybernetics. Knaur 1968.
  • Knaurs Book of electronics.
  • Parents discover the new math: quantities and numbers. In 1970.
  • Knaurs book of the New Learning. In 1969.
  • Parents discover the new logic.
  • And Muhammad is their prophet - the Arabs and their world. In 1975.
  • Puzzle Games from the drawing board - an introduction to the modern philosophy. Knaur 1972 ( on analytic philosophy).
  • Before the earth moved - a world history of physics. DVA 1975.
  • Formula and fantasy - a world history of mathematics. DVA 1977 ( the book was left unfinished and essentially treated only in antiquity ), rororo 1979.
  • Life under distant suns? Droemer / Knaur 1973.
  • The Dog Planet - a Canedusische history of thought. Droemer / Knauer 1973.
  • Poetry as editor of our mid-century, Kösel Verlag, 1965 ( with interpretations of Fuchs).
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