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Albrecht Heeffer,
a Belgian electrical engineer, philosopher and researcher with interests in the history of algebra [2], computational models for scientific discovery, recreational mathematics, and further in chess, computer chess and shogi. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Ghent University in 2006 on the topic of emergence of symbolic algebra during the sixteenth century [3], and is post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and member of the Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science [4] at Ghent University. In 1984, during a three month visit of the Turing Institute in Glasgow, Albrecht Heeffer worked on automated acquisition on concepts for the description of middlegame positions in chess [5], supported by Donald Michie, John Roycroft, and Tim Niblett [6].
Albrecht Heeffer was member of the Bionic Impakt team with Hans Secelle, and provided the hardware, worked through the test sets, added the endgame databases and did some optimizations [7], while they later joined the Ant team around Tom Vijlbrief.
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Photos
Albrecht Heeffer, Mathias Feist and Frans Morsch, ICT 2001 [8], round 5, Ant - Fritz [9]
Boris Spassky, Yoshiharu Habu, Albrecht Heeffer, Paris May 23, 2002 [10]
Selected Publications
1984
- Albrecht Heeffer (1984). Automated Acquisition on Concepts for the Description of Middle-game Positions in Chess. Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, TIRM-84-005
1985 ...
- Albrecht Heeffer (1985). Validating Concepts from Automated Acquisition Systems. IJCAI 85, pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer, Marc Leman (1986). Chunking as a Method for Concept Acquisition. Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Fernand Vandamme, Albrecht Heeffer (1986). An overview of expert systems. Proceedings of Expert Systems: Available Hard- and Software
1995 ...
- Patrick De Causmaecker, Albrecht Heeffer, Greet Vanden Berghe (1997). A Cost Function approach towards Scheduling of Highly Constrained Resources. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on European Cooperation in International Projects, Information Technologies and Environmental Sciences
2000 ...
- Albrecht Heeffer (2003). Kepler's near discovery of the sine law: a qualitative computational model. Computer modeling of scientific reasoning, pdf [14]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2004). Récréations Mathématiques (1624) A Study on its Authorship, Sources and Influence. pdf
2005 ...
- Albrecht Heeffer (2006). The Regula Quantitatis or the invention of the second unknown. The 22nd International Conference on the History of Science
- Albrecht Heeffer (2006). Van precepten tot vergelijkingen: de conceptuele ontwikkeling van de symbolische algebra in de zestiende eeuw. Ph. D. thesis, Universiteit Gent (Flemish)
- Albrecht Heeffer, Harold Heeffer (2007). Near-Optimal Strategies for the Game of Logik. pdf [15]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2007). Mathematics education through lesson study in the Asia-Pacific region. pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2007). On the Nature and Origin of Algebraic Symbolism. pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2007). Humanist Repudiation of Eastern Influences in Early Modern Mathematics. pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2008). From Problem Solving to Argumentation: Pacioli’s Appropriation of Abbacus Algebra. pdf [16]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2008). Negative Numbers As An Epistemic Difficult Concept: Some Lessons From History. pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2008). Text production, reproduction and appropriation within the abbaco tradition: a case study. pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2008). Estienne de la Roche’s appropriation of Chuquet (1484). pdf [17] [18]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2008). On the interpretation of early Italian bartering problems. pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2008). A Conceptual Analysis of Early Arabic Algebra. pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2009). On the curious historical coincidence of algebra and double-entry bookkeeping. To appear in: Karen François, Benedikt Löwe, Thomas Müller, Bart van Kerkhove (eds.) Foundations of the Formal Sciences. Bringing together Philosophy and Sociology of Science, College Publications, London. pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2009). The Abbacus Tradition: the Missing Link between Arabic and Early Symbolic Algebra? pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2009). Algebraic partitioning problems from Luca Pacioli's Perugia manuscript (Vat. Lat. 3129). pdf
2010 ...
- Albrecht Heeffer (2010). Regiomontanus and Chinese Mathematics. pdf [19]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2011). The Rule of Quantity by Chuquet and de la Roche and its Influence on German Cossic Algebra. Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, pdf
- Albrecht Heeffer (2011). Models of scientific discovery: what do they explain?. Third international conference on philosophy and cognitive science, Proceedings [20]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2011). From problem solving to the teaching of algebra: the genesis of the algebra textbook. 11th international IHPST and 6th Greek history, philosophy and science teaching joint conference, Proceedings
- Albrecht Heeffer (2012). The genesis of the algebra textbook: from Pacioli to Euler. Almagest
- Albrecht Heeffer (2012). Dutch arithmetic, samurai and warships: teaching of Western mathematics in pre-Meiji Japan. History and Pedagogy of Mathematics, Proceedings [21]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2012). Sangaku: the mathematics of traditional Japanese votive tablets. Mathematics Today [22]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2013). Why the quadratic equation has only one root (according to abbaco masters). Mathematics Today
- Albrecht Heeffer (2013). Algebraic symbolism as a conceptual barrier in learning mathematics. 6th East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education, Proceedings
- Albrecht Heeffer (2013). Was Uncle Tom right that quadratic problems can't be solved with the rule of false position?. The Mathematical Intelligencer
- Albrecht Heeffer (2014). Cardano's favorite problem: the Proportio Reflexa. The Mathematical Intelligencer [23]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2014). Data-driven induction in scientific discovery: a critical assessment based on Kepler's discoveries. Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality], in Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Vol. 5, Springer
2015 ....
- Sister Mary Leontius Schulte, Albrecht Heeffer (2015). Writing the history of mathematical notation: 1483 - 1700. Docent Press, amazon
- Albrecht Heeffer (2016). The Emperor’s New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662–1722) by Catherine Jami.The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 38, No. 2
- Matthijs Hendricus Sitters, Albrecht Heeffer (2016). The Hundred Geometrical Questions of Sybrandt Hansz Cardinael: Early-modern Dutch Geometry from the Surveyor's Tradition. Docent Press, amazon [24]
- Albrecht Heeffer (2017). Arithmetic in the Renaissance. Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Ed. Marco Sgarbi, Springer
- Albrecht Heeffer (2017). Using Invariances in Geometrical Diagrams: Della Porta, Kepler and Descartes on Refraction. The Optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535–1615): a Reassessment, Springer
Forum Posts
- Comparing Bionic-Impakt vs Bionic by Albrecht Heeffer, CCC, January 27, 1999 » Engine Similarity, Bionic Impakt, Bionic
External Links
- Albrecht Heeffer | Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - Research Portal
- Albrecht Heeffer | Sarton Centre for History of Science
- Albrecht Heeffer's homepage
- Albrecht Heeffer - Google Scholar Citations
- Albrecht Heeffer - ResearchGate
- European/Worldwide Open Shogi Championship 2002 - Participants
- Albrecht Heeffer - The Abbaco mathematical culture (1300 - 1500) , YouTube Video
- First Conference on Mathematical Cultures, September 10-12, 2012 at De Morgan House, London
References
- ↑ Albrecht Heeffer | Sarton Centre for History of Science
- ↑ Sources in the history of algebra by Albrecht Heeffer
- ↑ Albrecht Heeffer (2006). Van precepten tot vergelijkingen: de conceptuele ontwikkeling van de symbolische algebra in de zestiende eeuw. Ph. D. thesis, Universiteit Gent
- ↑ Members | Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
- ↑ Albrecht Heeffer (1984). Automated Acquisition on Concepts for the Description of Middle-game Positions in Chess. Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, TIRM-85-005
- ↑ Albrecht Heeffer (1985). Validating Concepts from Automated Acquisition Systems. IJCAI 85, pdf, This work was carried out during a three month visit at the Turing Institute. Financial support was provided by the Belgian NFWO and the ICIWO. I would like to express my thank s to Prof. F. Vandamme of the University of Ghent, and to Prof. Donald Michie, Mr John Roycroft and Dr Tim Niblett of the Turing Institute, for their helpful suggestions
- ↑ Re: Bionic Vs Crafty Debate: some data required by Albrecht Heeffer, CCC, January 25, 1999 » Crafty
- ↑ Leiden 2001 by László Szalai
- ↑ ICT Leiden 2001 - download
- ↑ Albrecht Heeffer - My game against Habu
- ↑ Preprints from 1995 on
- ↑ Albrecht Heeffer - Publications
- ↑ dblp: Albrecht Heeffer
- ↑ Johannes Kepler from Wikipedia
- ↑ Mastermind (board game) from Wikipedia
- ↑ Luca Pacioli from Wikipedia
- ↑ Estienne de la Roche from Wikipedia
- ↑ Nicolas Chuquet from Wikipedia
- ↑ Regiomontanus from Wikipedia
- ↑ Knowledge extraction from Wikipedia
- ↑ Emperor Meiji from Wikipedia
- ↑ Sangaku from Wikipedia
- ↑ Gerolamo Cardano from Wikipedia
- ↑ Sybrandt Hansz. Cardinael - Wikipedia.nl (Dutch)
