%O Essays Dedicated to Martin Wirsing on the Occasion of His Retirement from the Chair of Programming and Software Engineering %I Springer %T A homage to Martin Wirsing %P 1-12 %B Software, Services, and Systems %N 8950 %R 10.1007/978-3-319-15545-6_1 %S Lecture Notes in Computer Science %A Rocco De Nicola %A Rolf Hennicker %L eprints2631 %D 2015 %X Martin Wirsing was born on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 1948, in Bayreuth, a Bavarian town which is famous for the annually celebrated Richard Wagner Festival. There he visited the Lerchenb?hl School and the High-School ?Christian Ernestinum? where he followed the humanistic branch focusing on Latin and Ancient Greek. After that, from 1968 to 1974, Martin studied Mathematics at University Paris 7 and at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t in Munich. In 1971 he became Maitrise-en-Sciences Mathematiques at the University Paris 7 and, in 1974, he got the Diploma in Mathematics at LMU Munich.