Dieter Hoffmann – författare

Den reviderade upplagan av Förhållningssätt och möten bygger likväl som den första utgåvan på en viktig samhällsdiskussion, nämligen om yrkesmässigt bemötande inom äldre- och funktionshinderomsorg. Boken har tillkommit med ambitionen att täcka den kunskapsbrist som råder rörande arbetsmetoder inom social omsorg och har uppdaterats gällande terminologi och lagstiftning samt ett kapitel om välfärdsteknik och ett om samverkan. Boken syftar till att introducera aktuella arbetsmetoder inom äldre- och funktionshinderomsorg. I varje kapitel presenteras en metod och dess teoretiska grunder vilket levandegörs genom fallbeskrivningar. Boken spänner över flertalet områden, såsom biståndsbedömning och dokumentation, aktivitet och välfärdsteknik, anhörigstöd och existentiella samtal. Vidare behandlas samverkan, case management och supported employment, kommunikation och vardagsliv med personlig assistans. Här diskuteras teorier och begrepp samt den internationella klassifikationen av funktions­tillstånd, funktionshinder och hälsa (ICF). Boken riktar sig såväl till studerande vid universitets- och högskole­utbildningar inom socialt arbete, vård och omsorg som till yrkeshögskola och vuxenutbildning. Den kan även användas som handbok för yrkesverksamma inom social omsorg.

Optimization is a field important in its own right but is also integral to numerous applied sciences, including operations research, management science, economics, finance and all branches of mathematics-oriented engineering. Constrained optimization models are one of the most widely used mathematical models in operations research and management science.This book gives a modern and well-balanced presentation of the subject, focusing on theory but also including algorithims and examples from various real-world applications. The text is easy to read and accessible to anyone with a knowledge of multi-dimensional calculus, linear algebra and basic numerical methods. Detailed examples and counter-examples are provided - as are exercises, solutions and helpful hints, and Matlab/Maple supplements.The intended readership is advanced undergraduates, graduates, and professionals in any of the applied fields.

Taking advantage of documents never before available from the archives of the East German Communist Party and the Ministry for State Security, and drawing on interviews with, among others, the legendary spy chief Markus Wolf and members of the East German Politburo, Science under Socialism is the first book to examine the role of science and technology in the former German Democratic Republic. The result is a multi-layered analysis of the scientific enterprise that provides a fascinating glimpse into what it took to construct a new socialist state and the role science and technology played in it.The book is organized around general policy issues, institutions, disciplines, and biographies. An international cast of contributors (Americans, former East Germans, and former West Germans) take the reader on a journey from the view of science policymakers, to the construction of "socialist" institutions for science, to the role of espionage in technology transfer, to the social and political context of the chemical industry, engineers, nuclear power, biology, computers, and finally the career trajectories of scientists through the vicissitudes of twentieth-century German history.By providing a historical understanding of the scientific enterprise in East Germany, Science under Socialism also offers the fullest account we have of the effect of state socialism on the development of science.

This is a history of one of the oldest and most important scientific societies, the German Physical Society, during the Nazi regime and immediate postwar period. When Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Physical Society included prominent Jewish scientists as members, including Fritz Haber and Albert Einstein. As Jewish scientists lost their jobs and emigrated, the Society gradually lost members. In 1938, under pressure from the Nazi Ministry of Science, Education and Culture, the Society forced out the last of its Jewish colleagues. This action was just the most prominent example of the tension between accommodation and autonomy that characterized the challenges facing physicists in the Society. They strove to retain as much autonomy as possible, but tried to achieve this by accommodating themselves to Nazi policies, which culminated in the campaign by the Society's president to place physics in the service of the war effort.

Lured by a top academic position sponsored by the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Berlin in 1914 and lived there until 1932, just weeks before Hitler became chancellor of Germany. During this fraught economic and political time, Einstein developed the general theory of relativity, gained worldwide fame, supported democratic, socialist, pacifist, and Zionist causes, and withstood the growing ire of ultranationalists. Naturally, he became entwined in a network of people and places throughout the city. With a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Walter Kohn, Einstein's Berlin combines narrative, maps, and period photographs to tell this story in the form of a sophisticated, annotated city guide, allowing readers and travelers to follow the physicist's footsteps throughout Berlin. Dieter Hoffmann conveys how Einstein's life and work were linked to the scientific and social life of the city and inspires the reader to explore the places where he made his mark.

Optimization is a field important in its own right but is also integral to numerous applied sciences, including operations research, management science, economics, finance and all branches of mathematics-oriented engineering.

This volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and institutional history from its founding until the present. The institute was among the earliest established by the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, and its inauguration was one of the first steps in the development of Berlin-Dahlem into a center for scientific research. Its establishment was made possible by an endowment from Leopold Koppel, granted on the condition that Fritz Haber, well-known for his discovery of a method to synthesize ammonia from its elements, be made its director. The history of the institute has largely paralleled that of 20th-century Germany. It undertook controversial weapons research during World War I, followed by a "Golden Era" during the 1920s, in spite of financial hardships. Under the National Socialists it experienced a purge of its scientific staff and a diversion of its research into the service of the new regime, accompanied by a breakdown in its international relations. In the immediate aftermath of World War II it suffered crippling material losses, from which it recovered slowly in the post-war era. In 1953, shortly after taking the name of its founding director, the institute joined the fledgling Max Planck Society. During the 1950s and 60s, the institute supported diverse researches into the structure ofmatter and electron microscopy in a territorially insular and politically precarious West-Berlin. In subsequent decades, as both Berlin and the Max Planck Society underwent significant changes, the institute reorganized around a board of coequal scientific directors and a renewed focus on the investigation of elementary processes on surfaces and interfaces, topics of research that had been central to the work of Fritz Haber and the first "Golden Era" of the institute.

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the means of protection against them).Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber’s institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) organized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemical warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment — including the issue of dual use — as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination.The volume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015.

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the means of protection against them).Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber’s institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) organized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemical warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment — including the issue of dual use — as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination.The volume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015.

Dieses Buch behandelt in einer eleganten, vergleichsweise konzisen Form zentrale Themen der Analysis, wie sie in einer zweisemestrigen Vorlesung für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Ingenieure, aber auch für Informatiker an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen behandelt werden. Die Ideen werden - mit ständigem Blick auf Anwendungen - behutsam herausgearbeitet, zu leistungsfähigen Methoden ausgestaltet und durch vollständig durchgerechnete Beispiele erläutert. Instruktive Abbildungen tragen zur Veranschaulichung bei. Eine Fülle von Übungsaufgaben rundet den Text ab. Das Buch ist als Basis für eine Vorlesung, aber auch zum Selbststudium, bestens geeignet.

Seine Beiträge zur Thermodynamik und insbesondere zum Entropiebegriff begründeten seinen Ruf als einer der führenden theoretischen Physiker seiner Zeit und schlugen zugleich die Brücke zu seinen Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Wärmestrahlung, die ihn zum Planckschen Wirkungsquantum und zur Quantenhypothese führen sollte.

Da die Funktionentheorie in vielen Fächern benötigt wird, spannen zahlreiche Beispiele - etwa zur Potentialströmung, Kutta-Joukowski-Transformation und Netzgenerierung mit Hilfe konformer Abbildungen - den Bogen zu Anwendungen.

Die Theorie der Gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen ist ein grundlegendes und unverändert aktuelles Gebiet der Mathematik.Das vorliegende Buch führt nicht nur äußerst sorgfältig und umfassend in die Theorie ein, sondern vermittelt auch aufgrund der zahlreichen vollständig durchgerechneten Beispiele einen Einblick in deren Anwendungspraxis. Eine weitere Besonderheit ist der Brückenschlag zur Computeranwendung. Mit ausgefeilten Maple-Arbeitsblättern wird gezeigt, wie man mit dem Computer gestalten, Ideen vermitteln und eindrucksvoll visualisieren kann.So können auch rechnerisch anspruchsvollere Beispiele behandelt werden, als dies sonst üblich ist.Mit seinem reichhaltigen Material, dem klaren und präzisen Stil und der durchdachten didaktischen Konzeption ist das Buch bestens als Basis und Leitfaden für Studierende und Lehrende der Mathematik, Physik, Wirtschafts- wie auch Ingenieurwissenschaften geeignet, besonders auch in den Bachelor-Studiengängen.

Die Breite der Beiträge reicht von der Kommunikation innerhalb der Physik, der Rolle der neutralen Staaten bis hin zur Geschichte spezifischer physikalischer Technologien und Methoden.