English summary: Iris Runge (1888-1966) compared computing in an industrial laboratory with a joyous feeling of childhood: "It's like when you woke up early on Christmas Day with the prospect of being able to play all day with your new things." This book demonstrates how this outstanding technology and business mathematician led to the development of German companies such as Osram and Telefunken, and shows the links between mathematics, experimental research, technology, education, and politics from the empire to the end of World War II. The researcher and later professor of theoretical physics, originally stemming from Huguenot tradition, christened her boat after the Chinese goddess Kuan Yin, who had compassion for the poor and in combination with a dragon also symbolized wisdom, strength and thereby her two worlds: Applied mathematics and advocacy for a just world. German text. German description: Iris Runge (1888-1966) verglich das Rechnen im Industrielabor mit einem begluckenden...

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