Dörte Haftendorn

Dörte Haftendorn (born March 25, 1948)[1] is a German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author who works as a professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

[2] Haftendorn earned her PhD in 1975 from the Clausthal University of Technology.

Her dissertation, Additiv kommutative und idempotente Halbringe mit Faktorbedingung [Additive, commutative, and idempotent semirings with the factor condition], concerned the theory of semirings and was supervised by Hanns J.

[2] Haftendorn is the author of two German-language mathematics textbooks.

[4] Kurven erkunden und verstehen [Exploring and understanding curves] (Spektrum, 2016) is an introductory textbook in geometry focusing on the geometry of curves and incorporating calculations with GeoGebra.