Draft:Wolfgang Mückenheim

Wolfgang Mückenheim (born 14 March 1949) is a German physicist and university lecturer who contributed to the theories of vacuum polarization and extended probabilities.

Early life and education

Mückenheim was born in Zorge, district of Göttingen, Germany. He studied physics with astronomy and mathematics at the University of Göttingen. After graduating with a work on atomic decay he doctored with a dissertation on elastic photon-scattering by uranium, a work in the field of vacuum polarization. As a result, he could demonstrate for the first time Delbrück scattering below the pair production threshold.

Career

In 1981, he joined a laser production company and became head of research and development

In 1990, he returned to a more academic life and lectured at the Technische Universität Clausthal about theory of electromagnetic fields. In the same year he was appointed professor at the Technische Hochschule Augsburg, where he lectured about mathematics, history of mathematics, and physics. For two terms, from 2003 to 2007, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of General Sciences. In 2014, he became emeritus and continues to lecture about history of the concept of infinity and the history of mathematics.

Research and teaching

In the 1980s, Mückenheim published about the foundations of quantum mechanics. He obtained a formal solution of the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox in case of spin-1/2 particles. This was facilitated by his theory of extended probabilities, admitting negative probabilities, using related ideas of Paul Dirac, Maurice Bartlett and Richard Feynman. In his Review of extended probabilities, all of the research on this topic has been summarized. His correspondence with Maurice Bartlett, mainly on his theory, is kept by the Royal Socienty.

Nature, has published a full article on Mückenheim's theory which has stirred up readers' letters

Since 2000, Mückenheim has been working about the concept of infinity generally and especially in mathematics. He claims to have found contradictions within modern set theory. He published his results in monographies, conferences, and on the Internet. In addition, he gives regular lectures on the history of the concept of infinity and the history of mathematics.

His textbook Die Geschichte des Unendlichen, appeared in 7th edition by Maro-Verlag, Augsburg. His text book Mathematik für die ersten Semester was published in three editions by the Oldenbourg Verlag, the fourth edition appeared by the De Gruyter-Verlag. This book has even become a bestseller

Personal life

Mückenheim lives in Zorge/Harz and in Bobingen, near Augsburg. In Wintersemesters he lectures about the history of mathematics and the infinite.

Selected bibliography

• A resolution of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.
• An extended-probability response to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument.
• Some arguments against the existence of de Broglie waves.
• A review of extended propbabilities.
• Mathematik für die ersten Semester. 4th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-037733-0.https
• Die Geschichte des Unendlichen. 7th edition, Maro-Verlag, Augsburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-87512-156-8.
• Die Mathematik des Unendlichen. Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2006 ISBN 978-3-8322-5587-9
• Transfinity – A Source Book. Eliva Press, Chișinău 2024 ISBN 978-99993-1-774-0.

External links

• Website of Wolfgang Mückenheim
• Wolfgang Mückenheim Curriculum vitae
• Wolfgang Mückenheim at google.scholar

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