The Arithmeum is a mathematics museum owned by the Forschungsinstitut für Diskrete Mathematik (Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics) at the University of Bonn .
5-501: It was founded in 2008 by the director of the institute, Bernhard Korte , who contributed his private collection of calculating machines . The building's steel-glass facade – located at Lennéstrasse 2 – is meant to represent the "transparency of science". The permanent exhibit "Calculating in Olden and Modern Times" ( German : Rechnen Einst und Heute ) shows the progression of mechanical calculating machines through 1,200 pieces. It holds
10-606: A North Rhine-Westphalian building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about the history of mathematics is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bernhard Korte Bernhard H. Korte (born November 3, 1938, in Bottrop , Germany ) is a German mathematician and computer scientist, a professor at the University of Bonn , and an expert in combinatorial optimization . Korte earned his doctorate ( Doctor rerum naturalium ) from
15-636: A faculty member in 1972. At the University of Bonn, Korte is the director of the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics . Korte has been a guest professor at Stanford , Cornell , the University of Waterloo , MIT , Yale and Rutgers University , along with institutions in Rome , Pisa , Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro . In 1997, Korte received the State Prize of Nordrhein-Westfalen , and in 2002 he
20-411: The University of Bonn in 1967. His thesis was entitled "Beiträge zur Theorie der Hardy'schen Funktionenklassen" (translated, " Contributions to the theory of Hardy function classes "), and was supervised by Ernst Peschl and Walter Thimm. He earned his habilitation in 1971, and briefly held faculty positions at Regensburg University and Bielefeld University before joining the University of Bonn as
25-435: The very large (4,000 pieces), IJzebrand Schuitema (1929–2013) 400 year collection of slide rules . There are also exhibits on very-large-scale integrated ( VLSI ) logic chips, historical arithmetic books dating back to Johannes Gutenberg 's times, and the relationship between art and science. 50°43′50″N 7°6′18″E / 50.73056°N 7.10500°E / 50.73056; 7.10500 This article about
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