Menso Folkerts

Menso Folkerts is a German mathematician and writer of popular science books.

Early life

Menso Folkerts was born on June 22, 1943, in Eschwege, Germany. From 1962 to 1967 he studied classical philology, mathematics and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Göttingen.

Career

From 1980 to 2008 he was a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
He contibruted to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Folkerts completed a database of over 7000 letters written by or sent to Gauss, which can be accessed on the internet.

Awards and honours

He received the Kenneth O. May Prize in 2013. His scholarship has been recognized by various academies. For example, he is a Member of the International Academy of the History of Science, and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.