Jörg Bewersdorff

Jörg Bewersdorff (2006)

Jörg Bewersdorff (born 1 February 1958 in Neuwied)^[1] is a German mathematician who is working as mathematics writer and game designer.^[2]

Life and work

After obtaining his Abitur from the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Neuwied^[3] Bewersdorff studied mathematics from 1975 to 1982 at the University of Bonn.^[4] In 1982 he submitted his diploma in mathematics in Bonn^[4] and in 1985 he received his doctorate there under the supervision of Günter Harder^[5] (A Lefschetz fixed point formula for Hecke operators).^[6]

In 1985 Bewersdorff started a career as game designer.^[1] Since 1998^[4] he is general manager of subsidiaries of the Gauselmann AG.^[1][7][8] Bewersdorff is author of four textbooks dealing with probability theory, mathematics of gambling, game theory, combinatorial game theory, Galois theory, mathematical statistics, JavaScript and object-orientated programming. Two of them were translated into English. One book was translated also to Korean.^[9] Bewersdorff's books are undergraduate level books. Their goal is to explain applications and what is going on behind the formalism.^[10][11]

Publications

• Luck, logic and white lies: the mathematics of games, A K Peters 2005, ISBN 978-1-56881-210-6, translation of Glück, Logik und Bluff: Mathematik im Spiel - Methoden, Ergebnisse und Grenzen, ISBN 978-3-8348-1923-9, doi:10.1007/978-3-8348-2319-9.
• Galois theory for beginners - a historical perspective, American Mathematical Society 2006, ISBN 0-8218-3817-2, doi:10.1090/stml/035, translation of Algebra für Einsteiger: von der Gleichungsauflösung zur Galoistheorie, ISBN 3834807761, doi:10.1007/978-3-8348-9326-0.
• Statistik – wie und warum sie funktioniert. Ein mathematisches Lesebuch, ISBN 978-3834817532, doi:10.1007/978-3-8348-8264-6.
• Objektorientierte Programmierung mit JavaScript: Direktstart für Einsteiger, ISBN 978-3-658-05443-4, doi:10.1007/978-3-658-05444-1.

References

1. "Jörg Bewersdorff". Games & business (6): 74. 2003. ISSN 1619-0564.
2. Bewersdorff, Jörg (1998). "Berufsbild: Spieldesigner". Mitteilungen der DMV. 6 (3): 60–61. doi:10.1515/dmvm-1998-0318. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
3. Jörg Bewersdorff, stayfriends.de, retrieved 2013-01-02
4. Hirsch, Ulrich; Dueck, Gunter (2003), Management by Mathematics, p. 83, doi:10.1007/978-3-322-90788-2_10, ISBN 3528031875
5. Jörg Bewersdorff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. Review in Zentralblatt MATH
7. Mega-Spielgeräte, Kurze Firmengeschichte, retrieved 2016-04-06
8. GeWeTe, Impressum, retrieved 2012-10-04
9. "Book catalogue of Library of Duksung Women's University". Retrieved 2015-04-06.
10. "Jörg Bewersdorff und die Algebra". Retrieved 2012-10-04.
11. Chris Linton (2012). "Editorial" (PDF). Mathematics Today. 48 (6): 242–243. ISSN 1361-2042.

External links

Media related to Jörg Bewersdorff at Wikimedia Commons

• Website of Jörg Bewersdorff