Lothar Berg (born 28 July 1930 in Stettin; died 27 July 2015 in Rostock) was a German
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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and university teacher.
Work and life
Lothar Berg graduated from high school in
Neustrelitz
Neustrelitz (; East Low German: ''Niegenstrelitz'') is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the Zierker See in the Mecklenburg Lake District. From 17 ...
in 1949 and then studied mathematics and physics at the
University of Rostock
The University of Rostock (german: link=no, Universität Rostock) is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continen ...
. In 1953, he began a two-year postgraduate course at the University of Rostock. In 1955, he received his doctorate under and ("", English: General criteria for the measurement of linear point sets).
Lothar Berg then went to the
Technical University of Electrical Engineering in Ilmenau as a senior assistant (from 1958 as university lecturer).
From 1959 to 1965 Berg was a professor of mathematics at the
University of Halle
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university in ...
. From 1965 until his retirement in 1996 he was professor of analysis at the University of Rostock. He accompanied a large number of young mathematicians in their research work. His students included the later university teachers Karl-Heinz Kutschke, Manfred Taschen, and Dieter Schott.
Lothar Berg was a board member of the (English: Mathematical Society of the German Democratic Republic) from 1981 to 1990 and a member of the
Leopoldina from 1970 until his death.
In 1973, he received the University Medal of the
University of Jyväskylä
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, Finland, and the Second University Prize by the University of Rostock in 1978
as well as the Ehrenmedaille of the Mathematische Gesellschaft der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Berlin, in 1990. In 2005, he received the Golden DMV Plaquette by the
German Mathematical Society
The German Mathematical Society (german: Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Math ...
.
Lothar Berg has also been listed as a noteworthy mathematics educator by
Marquis Who's Who
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.
Since 27 May 1952,
he was married to a co-translator of various Russian math books into German, Christa Berg née Jahncke.
They had two children.
Publications
* . Berlin, 1962.
* (in Vol. 66). Berlin, 1968.
* . Berlin, 1972.
* . Berlin, 1974.
* . Berlin, 1979.
* . Berlin, 1986.
Translations
* aka "
Ryzhik-Gradshteyn"
* aka "
Smirnov"
See also
*
Gradshteyn and Ryzhik
''Gradshteyn and Ryzhik'' (''GR'') is the informal name of a comprehensive table of integrals originally compiled by the Russian mathematicians I. S. Gradshteyn and I. M. Ryzhik. Its full title today is ''Table of Integrals, Series, and Products ...
(GR)
*
A Course in Higher Mathematics
References
Further reading
* https://web.archive.org/web/20220123155634/http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/resolve/id/cpr_person_00001546?tab=documents
* https://web.archive.org/web/20220123155750/http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/file/cpr_person_00001546/cpr_derivate_00006483/berg_lothar_bib.pdf
* https://web.archive.org/web/20220122165247/http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/file/cpr_person_00001546/cpr_derivate_00001629/berg_lothar_pic.jpg
* https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002232/http://www.oz-trauer.de/danksagung/prof-dr-lothar/43432286
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20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
University of Rostock alumni
Academic staff of the University of Rostock
Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina