Erhard Scholz

Erhard Scholz (born 1947) is a German historian of mathematics with interests in the history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries, historical perspective on the philosophy of mathematics and science, and Hermann Weyl's geometrical methods applied to gravitational theory.

Education and career Scholz studied mathematics at the University of Bonn and the University of Warwick from 1968 to 1975 with Diplom from the University of Bonn in 1975. In 1986, Scholtz habilitated at the University of Wuppertal. There he became in 1989 an associate professor of the history of mathematics and retired in 2012. He also works at the University of Wuppertal's Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (IZWT, Interdisciplinary Center for Science and Technology Research), which he co-founded in 2004. In 1993, he was a visiting professor at the Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Institute for the History of Science) at the University of Göttingen. of 19th-century crystallography to the work of Schelling, and of Hermann Weyl's philosophy of mathematics to the work of Leibniz.

Scholz was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994 in Zürich. He is a co-editor, with Friedrich Hirzebruch, Reinhold Remmert, Walter Purkert, and Egbert Brieskorn, of the collected works of Felix Hausdorff. Scholz was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Hirst Prize and Lectureship in 2023.

Selected publications

as editor: Geschichte der Algebra, Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1990 as editor: Hermann Weyl´s Raum-Zeit-Materie and a general introduction to his scientific work, Birkhäuser 2001