Dörte Haftendorn (born March 25, 1948)[1] is a German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author who works as a professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.[2]
Education and career
Haftendorn earned her PhD in 1975 from the Clausthal University of Technology. Her dissertation, Additiv kommutative und idempotente Halbringe mit Faktorbedingung [Additive, commutative, and idempotent semirings with the factor condition], concerned the theory of semirings and was supervised by Hanns J. Weinert.[3]
She taught at the Johanneum gymnasium in Lüneburg from 1975 until 2002, when she became a professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.[2]
Books
Haftendorn is the author of two German-language mathematics textbooks. Mathematik sehen und verstehen [Seeing and understanding mathematics] (Spektrum, 2010; 2nd ed., 2015) is a broad overview of mathematics for a popular audience, stemming from Haftendorn's "mathematics for all" lecture series.[4] Kurven erkunden und verstehen [Exploring and understanding curves] (Spektrum, 2016) is an introductory textbook in geometry focusing on the geometry of curves and incorporating calculations with GeoGebra.[5]
References
- ↑ Birth date from ISNI authority control file, retrieved 2018-11-28.
- 1 2 Curriculum vitae, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, retrieved 2018-07-19
- ↑ Dörte Haftendorn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Review of Mathematik sehen und verstehen:
- Behrends, Ehrhard, Leseecke, German Mathematical Society
- ↑ Reviews of Kurven erkunden und verstehen:
- Hoffmann, M. (2018), Mathematische Semesterberichte, 65 (2): 299–301, doi:10.1007/s00591-018-0222-y, S2CID 125641710
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- Hoffmann, M. (2018), Mathematische Semesterberichte, 65 (2): 299–301, doi:10.1007/s00591-018-0222-y, S2CID 125641710