Dörte_Haftendorn

Dörte Haftendorn

Dörte Haftendorn

German mathematician and educator

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]

Haftendorn in 2013

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

  1. [1]
    Birth date from ISNI authority control file, retrieved 2018-11-28.
  2. [2]
    Curriculum vitae, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, retrieved 2018-07-19
  3. [3]
    Dörte Haftendorn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. [4]
    Review of Mathematik sehen und verstehen:
  5. [5]
    Reviews of Kurven erkunden und verstehen:
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