Rul Gunzenhäuser

Rul Gunzenhäuser studied Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy at the Stuttgart Institute of Technology and the University Tübingen. After his state examination for teaching posts he published his dissertation in 1962 in Stuttgart. Later he worked as a scientific assistant at the data center of the Stuttgart Institute of Technology, as associate professor at the State University of New York, as well as professor for Applied Mathematics and Didactics at the College of Education Esslingen.
In his dissertation he establishes the connection between Birkhoff’s “Aesthetic Measure” and the Information Aesthetics developed by Bense, Moles and Frank. [Garnich, 1968] “Rul Gunzenhäuser applied Shannon’s information theory to Birkhoff’s concept of aesthetic measurement, developing a theory of micro-aesthetics.” [Klütsch, 2007]