Renate Tobies belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Renate Tobies as German mathematician and historian of mathematics.
Renate Tobies was born in 1947. Her recorded nationality is Germany. She studied at Leipzig University.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
Her academic posts were held at Leipzig University, University of Göttingen and University of Jena.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics and history of science.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from Germany matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Achievements
- Held posts at Leipzig University, University of Göttingen and University of Jena
- Fields: mathematics and history of science
