Helmut Schwichtenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Helmut Schwichtenberg

German mathematician and computer scientist

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1942

Place of Birth: Żagań, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Helmut Schwichtenberg (born April 5, 1942 in Zagan) is a German mathematical logician. Schwichtenberg studied mathematics from 1961 at the FU Berlin and from 1964 at the University of Münster, where he received his doctorate in 1968 from Dieter Rödding.
He then worked as an assistant and then as a professor in Münster, and since 1978 has been professor of mathematical logic at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (successor of Kurt Schütte).
Schwichtenberg deals, among other things, with proof theory, theory of computability, lambda calculus and with applications of logic in computer science. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.