Helmut Schwichtenberg

Helmut Schwichtenberg
Born	(1942-04-05) 5 April 1942 (age 82) Żagań, Poland [1]
Alma mater	Free University of Berlin, University of Münster
Scientific career
Fields	Logic, Proof theory, Mathematics
Institutions	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Thesis	A Classification of Multiple Recursive Functions
Doctoral advisor	Dieter Rödding

From left: Yiannis Moschovakis, Helmut Schwichtenberg, Anne Sjerp Troelstra, 2002 at the MFO

Helmut Schwichtenberg (born 5 April 1942 ^[2] ) is a German mathematical logician.

Schwichtenberg studied mathematics from 1961 at the Free University of Berlin and from 1964 at the University of Münster, where he received his doctorate in 1968 from Dieter Rödding. ^{[2] [3] [4]} He then worked as an assistant and then as a professor in Münster, ^[5] and since 1978 has been professor of mathematical logic at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich ^[2] (successor of Kurt Schütte).

Schwichtenberg deals with, among other things, proof theory, theory of computability, lambda calculus and applications of logic in computer science. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. ^[5]

Selected publications

• Helmut Schwichtenberg and Kurt Schütte (1990). "Mathematische Logik". In Gerd Fischer and Friedrich Hirzebruch and Winfried Scharlau and Willi Törnig (ed.). Ein Jahrhundert Mathematik, 1890–1990 – Festschrift zum Jubiläum der DMV. Dokumente zur Geschichte der Mathematik (in German). Vol. 6. Braunschweig: Vieweg. pp. 717–740. ISBN   3-528-06326-2.

• Helmut Schwichtenberg and Anne S. Troelstra (1996). Basic Proof Theory. Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science. Vol. 43 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-57223-1. (2nd edition 2000: ISBN   0-521-77911-1)

• Helmut Schwichtenberg and Stanley S. Wainer (2012). Proofs and Computations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-51769-0.

• Helmut Schwichtenberg (2006). "An arithmetic for polynomial-time computation". Theoretical Computer Science. 357 (1–3): 202–214. doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2006.03.019.

References

1. Ulrich Berger, Hannes Diener, Peter Schuster and Monika Seisenberger (2012). "Preface". Logic, Construction, Computation. pp. 2–4. doi:10.1515/9783110324921.2. ISBN   978-3-11-032453-2.
2. Jürgen Elstrodt and Norbert Schmitz (April 2013). "Ehemalige Professoren 1945–1969". Entwicklung der Mathematik an der Universität Münster (PDF) (in German). p. 283.
3. Helmut Schwichtenberg (1968). Eine Klassifikation der mehrfach-rekursiven Punktionen [A Classification of Multiple Recursive Functions](PDF) (Ph.D. thesis) (in German). Universität Münster. S2CID   17197421. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2019.
4. Helmut Schwichtenberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. Fritsch, Rudolf; Hauber, Rudolf, eds. (2000). "Prof. Dr. Helmut Schwichtenberg". 25 Jahre Fakultät für Mathematik Das Mathematische Institut 1971 – 1996: Jubiläumsfestschrift des Mathematischen Instituts der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. LMU Munich. Retrieved 22 May 2024.

External links

• Homepage at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich