Abraham van der Sluis

Abraham (Bram) van der Sluis (born November 15, 1928 in Utrecht ; † March 20, 2004 ) was a Dutch mathematician who was considered the doyen of numerical mathematics in the Netherlands. He was a professor at the University of Utrecht .

Van der Sluis studied mathematics and physics in Utrecht from 1946 (Doctoraalexamen 1952 cum laude) and received his doctorate in 1956 under Jan Popken at the University of Amsterdam (General Orthogonal Polynomials). As a post-doctoral student he was in Canada (New Brunswick) and, on his return, assistant to Hans Freudenthal in Utrecht. He became interested in computers at an early age and built the computer center at the University of Utrecht (of which he was director until 1970), for which he also spent a few months at the ETH Zurich with Eduard Stiefel and Heinz Rutishauser . In 1962 he became professor for numerical mathematics in Utrecht. In 1988 he retired.

In numerical mathematics, among other things, he dealt with condition numbers and the CG method .

His doctoral students include Robert Mattheji and Henk van der Vorst .

Fonts

Computers en Algoritmen, Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff 1969
Condition Numbers and Equilibration of Matrices. Numerische Mathematik, 14, 1969, pp. 14-23
Condition, Equilibration and Pivoting in Linear Algebraic Systems, Numerical Mathematics, 15, 1970, 74-86
with Henk van der Vorst: The rate of convergence of conjugate gradients, Numerische Mathematik, Volume 48, 1986, 543-560
The convergence behavior of Ritz values in the presence of close eigenvalues, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Volume 88/89, 1987, 651-694

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Abraham van der Sluis in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Sluis, Abraham van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sluis, Bram van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH	March 20, 2004

[1] Abraham van der Sluis in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)