Ivo Schneider
Ivo Hans Schneider (born 1 September 1938 in Munich) is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics and the natural sciences. [1]
Ivo Hans Schneider (born 1 September 1938 in Munich) is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics and the natural sciences. [1]
Schneider received his Abitur in 1957. He studied mathematics and physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he graduated as a mathematician in 1963 [2] and received his doctorate in 1968. His doctoral dissertation on Abraham de Moivre (Der Mathematiker Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754) [3] was supervised by Helmuth Gericke and Karl Stein. [4] In 1972 Schneider completed his habilitation Die Entwicklung des Wahrscheinlichkeitsbegriffs in der Mathematik von Pascal bis Laplace (The development of the concept of probability in mathematics from Pascal to Laplace). For the academic year 1972–1973 he was visiting professor, upon the invitation of Thomas S. Kuhn, at Princeton University and gave there a seminar on the history of probability theory. In the history of natural sciences department of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Schneider was an adjunct professor from 1978 to 1980 and a full professor from 1980 to 1995. [2] At the Bundeswehr University Munich, he was a professor of the history of science from 1995 to 2003, when he retired as professor emeritus. [5] From 1999 to 2000 he was a member of the Bundeswehr University Munich's academic senate.
In 1983 he was also a visiting professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld (as part of the project The probabilistic revolution 1800–1930). He was also a visiting professor in 1988 at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and in 1999 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He taught in Stuttgart (1971), Salzburg (1982/83, 1988/89), and Klagenfurt (1985). [2]
As a science historian, much of his work deals with the history of probability theory and its applications in physics. He has published on Rudolf Clausius, ancient Greek writings about Archimedes, applied mathematicians' use of measuring instruments, and philosophical influences on mathematicians. [6]
He has been a corresponding member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences since 1984 and a member since 1995. From 1990 to 2006 he was a member of the board of trustees of Munich's German Museum. From 1997 to 2006 he was a member of the board of Munich's Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte (ZWTG, Center for the History of Science and Technology). From 1988 to 1998 he was spokesman for the graduate school Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Naturwissenschaften und Technik im deutschsprachigen Raum (Interrelationships between natural sciences and technology in German-speaking countries) at the Munich universities and the German Museum. [2]
In December 1997 he married Angela Meier. They have a daughter Franziska.
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