Moritz Epple

Since 2003 he has been a professor at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and head of the working group for the modern history of science at the historic seminary there.

He also wrote the article on knot theory in the book History of Topology edited by Ioan James.

His historical research has also dealt with the epistemological works of Felix Hausdorff and Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking academic culture.

In 2002 at the ICM in Beijing he was an Invited Speaker with talk From Quaternions to cosmology – spaces of constant curvature 1873–1925.

In 2015 Epple with his Frankfurt team received the media prize of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung for the exhibition "Transcending Tradition".

Moritz Epple in Oberwolfach , 2010