Karl Seebach (June 28, 1912 in

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– July 18, 2007 in Munich) was a German

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. Seebach earned his doctorate at the

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under Heinrich Tietze and

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, in 1938. From 1977 to 1981, he held the Chair for Didactics of Mathematics at the University of Munich. Seebach was the author of many mathematics textbooks for the Gymnasium.Seebach
– Gymnasium Textbook Author.

Books

*Josef Breuer, Paul Knabe, Josef Lauter, Karl Seebach, and Klaus Wigand ''Handbuch der Schulmatematik: Band 2 Algebra'' (Hermann Schroedel) *Johannes Blume, Gerhard Frey, Heinrich Gall, Paul Knabe, Paul Mönnig, Karl Seebach, and Klaus Wigand ''Handbuch der Schulmathematik: Band 5 Einzelfragen der Mathematik'' (Hermann Schroedel) *Ludwig Schecher and Karl Seebach ''Einführung in die Mathematik. Bd. 1'' (Schmidt, 1950) *Karl Seebach and Reinhold Federle ''Vorschläge zum Aufbau der Analytischen Geometrie in vektorieller Behandlung'' (Ehrenwirth, 1965) *Friedrich Barth, Karl Seebach, and Ernst Winkler ''Vorschläge zur Behandlung der geometrischen Abbildungen in der Ebene'' (Ehrenwirth, 1968) *Karl Seebach and Edmund Kösel ''Arbeitsblätter zum Lehrerkolleg. Hauptschule. Schuljahr 9. H. 3. Mathematik, Physik, Chemie'' (TR-Verlagsunion, 1969)

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1912 births 20th-century German mathematicians German mathematics educators German textbook writers Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 2007 deaths {{Germany-mathematician-stub