Hartmut Jürgens (March 17, 1955 - September 23, 2017) was a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

, born in

Bremen, Germany Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

.Fractals for the classroom: strategic activities, Vol. 2, Springer Verlag 1992, p. vi He received his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

in 1983 from the

University of Bremen The University of Bremen (German: ''Universität Bremen'') is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strategi ...

. He has worked in the computer industry, and was the Director of the Dynamical Systems Graphics Laboratory at the

. He is the co-author of both ''Fractals: An Animated Discussion'' (a video) and ''Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science'' (Springer-Verlag, )

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