Writings by Uwe Lück

About myself:

Born April 29, 1962; grown up in the lovely town of Gernsbach (Black Forest); studied psychology, analytical philosophy, logic, philosophy of science, and mathematics; Dipl.-Math. (math diploma, thesis on space forms and relativistic cosmology, also concerning indistinguishability according to Glymour and Malament in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science VIII); main efforts in probability and statistics, theory of measurement, interpersonal comparisons of utility, foundations of mathematics, category theory. My doctoral thesis is concerned with foundations of measurement which has kept my interest since I learnt of psychophysics at the beginning of my psychological studies. 2003–2005, I worked for a DFG research project on the history of ordinal analysis (Gentzen-style proof theory) and its implications for the philosophy of mathematics. As a by-product, a (German) article on Hilbert’s Finitism (co-authored with Christian Tapp) appeared in the Selected Papers Contributed to the Sections of GAP.5. — Passionate (La)TeX macro writer (i.e., I develop modules for certain typesetting software). My main work in this respect has been ednotes for typesetting critical editions, developped for Christian Tapp in the course of the named project, in the meantime used by several others.

Afterwards, I have worked for two volumes of the German complete edition of works by and about Nicolaus Copernicus (Akademie-Verlag, Berlin). In 2007, a critical edition of a manuscript containing an early German translation of Copernicus’ main work, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Latin original title: De revolutionibus orbium coelestum), appeared, made by J. Hamel and A. Kühne, with ednotes (having contributed to deciphering and scrutinizing the translation, I am named as a minor co-author).

In 2010, I have been hired for creating a system for typesetting critical editions from XML files, see “lueckless”.

Once I played chess and music (classic, jazz) very eagerly. Since January 2007, I have spent (wasted?) much time for editing articles of the German Wikipedia, mainly on amateur subjects, rather competently only on Kurt Gödel — cf. my Wikipedia homepage.

Last revised May 13, 2010