Burkard Polster
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Burkard Polster (born 26 February 1965 in Würzburg) is a German[2] mathematician who runs and presents the Mathologer channel on YouTube.[3] He is a professor of mathematics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.[4]
Education and career
Polster earned a doctorate from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 1993 under the supervision of Karl Strambach.[5] Other universities that Polster has been affiliated with, before joining Monash University in 2000, include the University of Würzburg, University at Albany, University of Kiel, University of California, Berkeley, University of Canterbury, and University of Adelaide.[6]
Polster's research involves topics in geometry, recreational mathematics, and the mathematics of everyday life, including how to tie shoelaces[7] or stabilize a wobbly table.[8]
Books
Polster is the author of multiple books including:
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- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[12] Included in the four-book compilation Scientia: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Astronomy for All (2011) and translated into German as Sciencia: Mathematik, Physik, Chemie, Biologie und Astronomie für alle verständlich (Librero, 2014, in German).
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References
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- ↑ Burkard Polster at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ↑ Review of A Geometrical Picture Book:
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- ↑ Review of Geometries on Surfaces:
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- ↑ Reviews of The Mathematics of Juggling:
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- ↑ Review of Q.E.D.: Beauty in Mathematical Proof:
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- ↑ Reviews of The Shoelace Book:
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- ↑ Reviews of Math Goes to the Movies:
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External links
- Mathologer, Polster's YouTube site
- Maths Masters, Burkard Polster and Marty Ross
- Burkard Polster at Google Scholar
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Categories:
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- Australian mathematicians
- 20th-century German mathematicians
- Recreational mathematicians
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni
- Monash University faculty
- Living people
- Science-related YouTube channels
- 1965 births
- Mathematics popularizers
- 21st-century German mathematicians
- English-language YouTube channels
