Karin Reich

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Karin Anna Reich is a German historian of mathematics.

Career[]

From 1967 to 1973 Reich was a scientific assistant at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the Institute for the History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where in 1973 she and Helmuth Gericke graduated.[1][2] In 1980 she completed her time in Munich, publishing The development of tensor calculus, in 1994 in a revised form as a book.[3]

In 1980 she became Professor of the History of Natural Science and Engineering at the .[3] In 1980/81 and 1981/82 she had a teaching assignment for the History of Mathematics at the University of Heidelberg. In 1981 she represented the Department of History of Science at the University of Hamburg.[4] In 1982, she became associate professor and in 1988 Professor for History of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart.[1] From 1994 until her retirement she was a professor at the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Mathematics and Engineering at the University of Hamburg, where she succeeded Christoph J. Scriba as director.[3]

Recognition[]

Reich is a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[4]

Selected publications[]

Reich's publications include biographies of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Michael Stifel and François Viète.[3] With Gericke, Reich produced an annotated translation of Viète's Analyticam In artem Isagoge from 1591.[5] She wrote a history of vector-and tensor and differential geometry. With Kurt Vogel, Gericke and Reich reissued John Tropfke's history of elementary mathematics.[6]

Reich's books include:

  • Maß, Zahl und Gewicht: Mathematik als Schlüssel zu Weltverständnis und Weltbeherrschung [Measure, number and weight: Mathematics as key to understanding and mastering the world] (with Menso Folkerts and Eberhard Knobloch, VCH, Acta Humaniora, Weinheim, 1989)[7]
  • Die Entwicklung des Tensorkalküls: Vom absoluten Differentialkalkül zur Relativitätstheorie [The development of tensor calculus: From the absolute differential calculus to relativity theory] (Birkhäuser, 1994)[8]
  • Im Umfeld der "Theoria motus": Gauß' Briefwechsel mit Perthes, Laplace, Delambre und Legendre [On matters having to do with the "Theoria motus": Gauss' correspondence with Perthes, Laplace, Delambre and Legendre] (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001)[9]
  • Carl Friedrich Gauß und Russland: Sein Briefwechsel mit in Russland wirkenden Wissenschaftlern [Carl Friedrich Gauss and Russia: His correspondence with scientists working in Russia] (with Elena Roussanova, De Gruyter, 2012)[10]
  • Carl Friedrich Gauß und Christopher Hansteen: Der Briefwechsel beider Gelehrten im historischen Kontext [Carl Friedrich Gauss and Christopher Hansteen:A correspondence between two scholars in historical context] (with Elena Roussanova, De Gruyter, 2015)[11]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Prof. Dr. Karin Reich - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
  2. ^ Reich, Karin (1973). "Die Geschichte der Differentialgeometrie von Gauß bis Riemann (1828–1868)" [The History of Differential Geometry from Gauss to Riemann (1828-1868)]. Archive for History of Exact Sciences (in German). 11 (4): 273–376. doi:10.1007/BF00357392.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Die Entwicklung des Tensorkalküls. Vom absoluten Differentialkalkül zur Relativitätstheorie". Historia Mathematica. 22 (3): 323–326. 1995. doi:10.1006/hmat.1995.1027.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Webmaster, Dept. Mathematik (2012-10-28). "Prof. Dr. Karin Reich (i.R.)". www.math.uni-hamburg.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  5. ^ Review of Gericke and Reich's edition of Viète's work by R. C. H. Tanner, Isis, 1979, JSTOR 231409 231409
  6. ^ Review of Vogel, Gericke, and Reich's edition of Tropfke's work by Michael S. Mahoney, Isis, 1981, JSTOR 231202
  7. ^ Review of Maß, Zahl und Gewicht by Walter Purkert, MR1019830; review by U. Lindgren, Sudhoffs Archiv, 1991, JSTOR 20777350
  8. ^ Review of Die Entwicklung des Tensorkalküls by Detlef Laugwitz, MR1353442; review by C. W. Kilmister, Isis, 1997, JSTOR 236195
  9. ^ Review of Im Umfeld der "Theoria motus" by R. L. Cooke, MR1878353
  10. ^ Review of Carl Friedrich Gauß und Russland by Ivo Schneider, MR2896684; review by I. Grattan-Guinness British Journal for the History of Science, 2012, JSTOR 23275462
  11. ^ Review of Carl Friedrich Gauß und Christopher Hansteen by Thomas Ernst, MR3362733

Further reading[]

  • Gudrun Wolf Schmidt (eds.): "There is no particular way for kings to geometry". Festschrift for Karin Reich . Rauner, Augsburg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936905-23-6 .
  • Odefey Alexander (ed.): The History of mathematical sciences. Festschrift for the 65th Karin Reich Birthday . Publisher of history of science and technology, including Diepholz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-928186-80-3 .
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