PD Dr. Nicola Oswald

Preprints

• Dömling, Maria Theresa; Klotz, Renate; Leisner, Viola; Oswald, Nicola. Sustainability among students: desires, needs, and possible forms of participation. In: Von Wirth, Timo; Vogel, Thomas; Jansen, Petra (eds.): Compass for Change. Shaping the world of tomorrow with transformative skills. (Publication in October 2025)
• Submitted by: Oswald, N. & Klotz, R. Living networking – The University of Würzburg's sustainability laboratory, contribution to the conference “Real-world laboratories – experimental spaces for the path to a sustainable society” on April 11 and 12, 2024, organized by the Leibniz Institute for Ecological Urban and Regional Development in cooperation with the “Real-world laboratories of sustainability” network (2024)
• Gildehaus, L., Oswald, N. Gender-sensitive teaching in university mathematics – from needs to inventory to subject-specific competence model (for submission to mathematica didactica, on the topic of “Teaching and learning mathematics at universities – Theoretical foundations and empirical studies for subject-specific university didactics”)
• Oswald, N. Simplifying a proof of transcendence for e - A letter exchange between Adolf Hurwitz, David Hilbert and Paul Gordan. to appear In: The Richness of the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (eds. Chemla, K. Scholz. E. et al.), Archimedes series, Springer 2023 (to appear)

Publications

Books

• Dömling, Maria Theresa; Klotz, Renate; Leisner, Viola; Oswald, Nicola. Sustainability among students: desires, needs, and possible forms of participation. In: Von Wirth, Timo; Vogel, Thomas; Jansen, Petra (eds.): Compass for Change. Shaping tomorrow's world with transformative skills. (Publication in October 2025)
• Oswald, N., Steuding, J. Hurwitz’s Lectures on the Number Theory of Quaternions, EMS Buchreihe HEM: Heritage of European Mathematics, https://ems.press/books/hem/257/contents
• Oswald, N., Steuding, J. Elementare Zahlentheorie: Ein sanfter Einstieg in die höhere Mathematik Lehrbuch, Springer (2014)
• Oswald, N. Hurwitz's Complex Continued Fractions. A Historical Approach and Modern Perspectives. (Doktorarbeit) (2014) OPUS, Online-Publikationsservice der Universität Würzburg, urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-106040

Publication of books / magazines

• Herausgabe mit Kaufholz-Soldat, E. Against all Odds. Women’s Ways to Mathematical Research Since 1800., in der Reihe Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences,
• Reihen-Hrsg.: Hagengruber, R. et al., Springer (2020)
• Herausgabe eines interaktiven digitalen Mathematik-Jugendbuch mit Schmidt, K. Die Primzahl-Redakteure, Sophie Germain und operative Mathematik., Verlag: ABC Mathe Handels e.U. / 4learning2gether.eu (2021)
• Herausgabe von: Nelsen, R. B. Beweise ohne Worte. (Deutschsprachige Ausgabe von „Proofs Without Words“), Springer (2016)
• Herausgabe mit Blunck, A. und Motzer, R. Mathematik und Gender. Band 4 in der Schriftenreihe TRANSFER, Franzbecker Verlag (2016)

Reviewed articles and book contributions (selection)

• Oswald, N. Simplifying a proof of transcendence for e - A letter exchange between Adolf Hurwitz, David Hilbert and Paul Gordan. In: The Richness of the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (eds. Chemla, K. Scholz. E. et al.), Archimedes series, Springer (2024) 227-254
• Oswald, N., Steuding, J., Volkert, K. On the 100th anniversary of the local-global principle in number theory, Jahresber. Dtsch. Math. Ver. (2022) 124: 239-257,  doi.org/10
• Oswald, N., Steuding, J. A hidden Latin Square in Euler's Work from 1770. Mathematical Intelligencer (2020) 42: 23-29, doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09959-8
• Oswald, N., Steuding, J., Tongsomporn, J. Waring's Problem for Hurwitz Quaternion Integers. Journal of Integer Sequences 22 (2019), Article 19.8.1
• Oswald, N. Über ikonische Beweise in der Mathematik - Summen von Quadraten in der Zahlentheorie. mathematica didactica (2017) 40, (http://www.mathematica-didactica.com/altejahrgaenge/md_2017/md_2017_Oswald_Summe-Quadrate.pdf)
• Oswald, N. The unknown Hurwitz. Mathematical Intelligencer (2017) 39(1): 44 - 49, doi: 10.1007/s00283-016-9687-5
• Oswald, N. On a relation between modular functions and Dirichlet series. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. (2017) 71(4): 345 - 361, doi: 10.1007/s00407-017-0190-y
• Oswald, N. The Doeblin-Lenstra conjecture for a complex continued fraction algorithm. Tokyo Journal of Mathematics (2017) 40(1): 45-52
• Oswald, N., Steuding, J. Zeta-Functions Associated with Quadratic Forms in Adolf Hurwitz's Estate. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, (2016) 53(3): 477-481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/bull/1534

Articles (selection)

• Brief summary of the results of the student survey, Renate Klotz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,  Viola Leisner, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg   Dr. Nicola Oswald, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, 2025
• Hänel, J., Oswald, N., Steuding, J., Volkert, K. Felix Klein from the perspective of his three mathematical friends. Annual Report of the German Mathematical Society (2024) doi.org/10.1365/s13291-024-00284-4
• Oswald, N. How can perspectives and a network of participating stakeholders from all status groups at the university be recorded? Laboratorium Vivens / Reallabor Report, ed. Bernert, P. et al., Conference Proceedings Reallabore Conference Dresden (2024): 16
• Fetzer, A., Gildehaus, L., Oswald, N. Mathematics and gender & diversity as part of university courses – overview of existing offerings and networking. GDM Communications 116 (2024): 30-37 (https://ojs.didaktik-der-mathematik.de/index.php/mgdm/article/view/1221)
• Oswald, N. Practical report on the seminar “Mathematics and Gender” Contributions to Mathematics Education, GDM Annual Conference Frankfurt 2022 (in print)
• Oswald, N. Praxisbericht zum Seminar „Mathematik und Gender“ Beiträge zum Mathematikunterricht, GDM Jahrestagung Frankfurt 2022 (im Druck)
• Göller, R., Haak, I., Oswald, N., Steuding, J. Selbstorganisiertes Lernen und Gender. Einführung in das Minisymposium MS 14: Hochschuldidaktik – Selbstorganisiertes Lernen und Gender. Beiträge zum Mathematikunterricht 2020: 1399-1400, herausgegeben von: Hans-Stefan Siller, Wolfgang Weigel & Jan Franz Wörler, GDM Jahrestagung Würzburg, Münster: WTM
• Göller, R., Haak, I., Oswald, N., Steuding, J. Self-organized learning and gender. Introduction to the mini-symposium MS 14: University didactics – Self-organized learning and gender. Contributions to mathematics education 2020: 1399-1400, edited by: Hans-Stefan Siller, Wolfgang Weigel & Jan Franz Wörler, GDM Annual Conference Würzburg, Münster: WTM
• Oswald, N. A picture puzzle from Hurwitz's estate. DMV Mitteilungen No. 25-4 (2017): 234 - 235
• Oswald, N. Women - Mathematics - Culture? Oberwolfach Report (2017) No. 2: 89-91, doi: 10.4171/OWR/2017/2
• Oswald, N. Proofs without words with young refugees. GDM Mitteilung (2017), Issue 102: 5-11
• Oswald, N. A picture puzzle from Hurwitz's estate. DMV Mitteilungen No. 25-4 (2017): 234–235
• Oswald, N. The “cooling out” effect in socio-mathematical networks. Equality Journal MagazIn, University of Wuppertal WS 2016/17: 31-32

Academic CV

• SoSe 2023 - WS 2024/25 Research Assistant (Mathematics and Diversity), University of Würzburg, Chair of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
• WS 2022/23 Visiting Professor "Gender and Higher Education Didactics in Mathematics", University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Mathematics
• July 2021 - October 2022 Research Associate (Mathematics and Society), University of Würzburg, Number Theory Group
• Since WS 2019/20 Studienrätin im Hochschuldienst, University of Wuppertal, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, WG History and Didactics of Mathematics (currently on leave of absence)
• WS 2017/18 - SoSe 2018 Visiting professor (W3), focus: Gender and diversity in Mathematics, University of Hannover, Department of Didactics of Mathematics.
• Summer term 2017 substitute professorship (W3), substitution of Professor Dr. Klaus Volkert, Working Group History and Didactics of Mathematics, University of Wuppertal, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
• August - October 2016 Academic guest at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
• May 2015 - September 2019 Post-doctoral position with Prof. Dr. Klaus Volkert in the research group History and Didactics of Mathematics, University of Wuppertal, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
• November 2014 PhD in number theory with Prof. Dr. Jörn Steuding, University of Würzburg, Institute of Mathematics, Chair of Function Theory

Research interests

• Diversity/Gender and Mathematics
• Mathematics and Society
• Number Theory
• History of Mathematics
• Social-mathematical networks

Current

• Exercise organization "Introduction to Number Theory", 2 hrs, Tue 10-12,14-16 S0.106
• Lecture "Introduction to Number Theory", Wed 10-12 HS 4 ; Thu 10-12 HS 2 (together with Jörn Steuding)

Past Courses

• WS 2022/23 Seminar "Aspects of Gender-Sensitive Teaching and Mathematics" (University of Bielefeld)
• WS 2022 Seminar "Mathematics and Gender" (University of Würzburg)
• WS 2021/21 "Selected Chapters of Analysis" (University of Würzburg, Co.-Org.)