Dörte Haftendorn (born March 25, 1948) is a German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author who works as a professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
Education and career
Haftendorn earned her PhD in 1975 from the Clausthal University of Technology. Her dissertation, Additiv kommutative und idempotente Halbringe mit Faktorbedingung , concerned the theory of semirings and was supervised by Hanns J. Weinert.
She taught at the Johanneum gymnasium in Lüneburg from 1975 until 2002, when she became a professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
Books
Haftendorn is the author of two German-language mathematics textbooks. Mathematik sehen und verstehen (Spektrum, 2010; 2nd ed., 2015) is a broad overview of mathematics for a popular audience, stemming from Haftendorn's "mathematics for all" lecture series. Kurven erkunden und verstehen (Spektrum, 2016) is an introductory textbook in geometry focusing on the geometry of curves and incorporating calculations with GeoGebra.
References
- Birth date from ISNI authority control file, retrieved 2018-11-28.
- ^ 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