Walter Robert Fuchs

Walter Robert Fuchs (March 18, 1937 – July 21, 1976) was an American-German science communicator.

Life and work Fuchs was born in Princeton, where his father worked as a bank clerk. He went to Memmingen school (graduating in 1956), was trained as an electrician and mechanic, and then studied electrical engineering at the Munich Technical University as well as physics, mathematics and philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. With a dissertation on "Logical problems of classical mechanics and quantum theory", he received his doctorate in 1961. In 1962, he was a business editor at television program of Bavarian Radio studios. From 1965, he had headed the editorial of Applied Science and Technology. Fuchs spent his life in Munich and died at the age of 39 from cancer.

Fuchs wrote mostly in German; his books were translated into English and other languages and met an internationally wide audience. In 1970, his books had a total circulation of 750,000 sold copies, especially for math and science subjects. Modern mathematics was translated into fourteen languages, as in the later 1960s, and it helped to popularize the concepts of sets theory.

Fuchs was a trained artist and supplied many of the templates for the illustrations of his own works; in his time in Munich, he played clarinet and saxophone in various jazz bands. In 1972, he published his satire The Dogs Planet, a fiction novel.