Dörte Haftendorn


Dörte Haftendorn is a German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author who works as a professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Education and career

Haftendorn earned her Ph.D. in 1975 from the Clausthal University of Technology. Her dissertation, Additiv kommutative und idempotente Halbringe mit Faktorbedingung , concerned the theory of semirings and was supervised by Hanns J. Weinert.
She taught at the Johanneum gymnasium in Lüneburg from 1975 until 2002, when she became a professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Books

Haftendorn is the author of two German-language mathematics textbooks. Mathematik sehen und verstehen is a broad overview of mathematics for a popular audience, stemming from Haftendorn's "mathematics for all" lecture series. Kurven erkunden und verstehen is an introductory textbook in geometry focusing on the geometry of curves and incorporating calculations with GeoGebra.