Claus Peter Ortlieb

German mathematician

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Claus Peter Ortlieb (1 May 1947, in Reinbek – 15 September 2019) was a German mathematician (PhD), critic of work, critic of political economy, and a critic of contemporary science, especially regarding its use of mathematics.^[1]^[2]^[3] He was an editor for the journal EXIT!.^[4]

Ortlieb studied the University of Hamburg where he earned his doctorate 1976 under the supervision of Lothar Collatz.^[5] The name of his dissertation was Dualität und Näherungsverfahren bei konvexen Steuerungsproblemen (English: "Duality and approximation methods in convex control problems").^[6] Ortlieb taught at the University of Hamburg as a professor at the faculty of mathematics from 1985 to 2011. Ortlieb was one of the most known names of the writers in the magazine Krisis among Robert Kurz, Roswitha Scholz, Ernst Lohoff and Norbert Trenkle. Other than his mathematical work, Ortlieb was critical against contemporary science and its problem with mathematical models, particularly within biology and economics. Ortlieb also wrote polemic articles in the paper Konkret.^[4] Ortlieb died on 15 September 2019 at the age of 72.^[7]

Selection of Ortliebs Publications

Zur Kritik des modernen Fetischismus. Gesammelte Texte von Claus Peter Ortlieb 1997–2015. Schmetterling Verlag, Reihe: Black books, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 3-89657-174-5.
Zusammen mit Caroline v. Dresky, Ingenuin Gasser und Silke Günzel: Mathematische Modellierung. Eine Einführung in zwölf Fallstudien. 2. Aufl., Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 3-658-00534-3.
Robert Kurz, Weltkrise und Ignoranz: Kapitalismus im Niedergang.. Edited together with Roswitha Scholz . edition TIAMAT, 5th of mars 2013. ISBN 3-89320-173-4
Arbeitszwang und Arbeitsethos – 2012
Heinrich Hertz und das Konzept des Mathematischen Modells. In: Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Hrsg.) (2008): Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894) and the Development of Communication – Proceedings of the International Scientific Symposium in Hamburg. Oct., 8–12, 2007. Books on Demand, Norderstedt.
„Wesen der Wirklichkeit“ oder „Mathematikwahn“? In: Mathematik und Gesellschaft: Historische, philosophische und didaktische Perspektiven. Taschenbuch, herausgegeben von Gregor Nickel et al., Springer Spektrum; 1. Aufl. 2018 (14. Mai 2018), ISBN 3-658-16122-1.
Die verlorene Unschuld der Produktivität. In: Jahrbuch Denknetz 2010. Zu gut für den Kapitalismus. Blockierte Potenziale in einer überforderten Wirtschaft. 12–19, Edition 8, Zürich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85990-162-9.
Die Zahlen als Medium und Fetisch. In: Jens Schröter, Gregor Schwering, Urs Stäheli (Hrsg.): Media Marx: Ein Handbuch. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, Serie Masse und Medium, 4.
A Contradiction between Matter and Form: On the Significance of the Production of Relative Surplus Value in the Dynamic of Terminal Crisis. In: Neil Larsen, Mathias Nilges, Josh Robinson, Nicholas Brown (Hrsg.): Marxism and the Critique of Value. 77–122, MCM Publishing, Chicago 2014.
Der prozessierende Widerspruch. Produktion des relativen Mehrwerts und Krisendynamik. In: Gerd Grözinger, Utz-Peter Reich (Hrsg.): Ökonomie und Gesellschaft. Jahrbuch 24, Entfremdung – Ausbeutung – Revolte, Karl Marx neu verhandelt. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89518-941-8.

External links

The Lost Innocence of Productivity – Translated article by Ortlieb available for free
Free lecture in German: (Mythen Und Modelle Zur Kritik Der Neoklassischen Volkswirtschaftslehre)
Literature of and regarding Claus Peter Ortlieb in the german national library.
Ortliebs page at the hamburg university

References

Some references from the Swedish and German pages of this page hasn't been included in the translation.

^ Maguier, Alexander. "Ökonomie ist eigentlich keine Wissenschaft" [Economics is not actually a science]. math.uni-hamburg.de (in German). Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^ "Claus Peter Ortlieb | Η χαμένη αθωότητα της παραγωγικότητας" [Claus Peter Ortlieb | The lost innocence of productivity]. IforInterview (in Greek). 15 April 2018. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^ Ullrich, Peter (2018). "Reaktion auf Claus Peter Ortlieb – Bewertungen in Moral und Gesellschaft mittels Mathematik". Mathematik und Gesellschaft. pp. 31–37. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-16123-1_4. ISBN 978-3-658-16122-4.
^ ^a ^b "Persönliche Homepage Claus Peter Ortlieb". math.uni-hamburg.de (in German). Archived from the original on 24 October 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^ "Claus Peter Ortlieb". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^ Ortlieb, Claus Peter (1976). "Dualitat und naherungsverfahren bei konvexen steuerungsprobleme".
^ Hunger, Jörg. "En memoriam" (PDF). exit-lesekreis-hh.de (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2024.

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