Albrecht Heeffer

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Albrecht Heeffer, a Belgian electrical engineer, philosopher and researcher with interests in the history of algebra, 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, and is post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and member of the Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science 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, supported by Donald Michie, John Roycroft, and Tim Niblett.

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, while they later joined the Ant team around Tom Vijlbrief.

=Photos= Albrecht Heeffer, Mathias Feist and Frans Morsch, ICT 2001, round 5, Ant - Fritz Boris Spassky, Yoshiharu Habu, Albrecht Heeffer, Paris May 23, 2002

=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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Albrecht Heeffer (2012). Sangaku: the mathematics of traditional Japanese votive tablets. Mathematics Today
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

=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

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