Josef Stoer

Josef Stoer

Stoer at Erlangen in 1987 (courtesy MFO)
Born (1934-06-21)June 21, 1934
Meschede
Nationality German
Fields mathematician
numerical analysis
Institutions Universität Würzburg
Alma mater Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Thesis Über zwei Algorithmen zur Interpolation mit rationalen Funktionen (1961)
Doctoral advisor Friedrich Ludwig Bauer
Klaus Samelson
Doctoral students Bingsheng He
Website
www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/personal/stoer.html

Josef Stoer (born 21 June 1934 in Meschede) is a German mathematician specializing in numerical analysis and professor emeritus of the Institut für Mathematik of Universität Würzburg.[1]

He earned his Ph.D. in 1961 at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz under Friedrich Ludwig Bauer and Klaus Samelson. He has advised over 20 doctoral students.[2]

He is the author (with Roland Bulirsch) of Introduction to Numerical Analysis, a standard reference for the theory of numerical methods. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Augsburg (2007) and the Technical University of Munich (1997)[3] and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1981).[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/personal/stoer.html
  2. ↑ http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=21622
  3. ↑ http://www.in.tum.de/en/research/honorary-doctors.html
  4. ↑ http://link.springer.com/journal/211/68/1/page/1#
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