Roland Bulirsch

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Roland Bulirsch

Roland Zdeněk Bulirsch (born November 10, 1932 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia ) is a German mathematician who mainly deals with numerical mathematics .

Life

Bulirsch grew up in Maffersdorf-Neurode and was expelled to Nördlingen in 1946 . From 1947 to 1951 he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter at Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Nuremberg and continued to work there after passing the skilled worker examination. In 1954 he made up his Abitur and then studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Munich, now the Technical University of Munich . Until 1957 he worked alongside in his previous profession and company.

In 1961 he received his doctorate from the TH Munich. rer. nat with Robert Sauer and Josef Lense , followed by his habilitation in 1966. From 1967 to 1969 he was an Associate Professor at the University of California in San Diego and in 1969 he was appointed Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cologne . In 1973 he received the professorship for higher and numerical mathematics at the Technical University of Munich. In 1990 he was visiting professor at the Universidad de Costa Rica and several times visiting professor at the University of California. He was also a senator at the Technical University of Munich from 1998 to 2001. In the course of his career he had over forty doctoral students, including Hans Georg Bock , Peter Deuflhard and Wolfgang Hackbusch . In 2002 he retired.

His scientific work resulted in advances in extrapolation methods , multi-target methods and mathematical aspects of high technology.

Roland Bulirsch is widowed and has two daughters.

further activities

From 1980 to 1988 he was an expert reviewer and chairman of the expert review committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and from 1983 to 1988 a member of the selection committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .

Memberships

Scientific honors

The University of Hamburg , the Technical University of Liberec and the National Technical University of Athens awarded him an honorary doctorate . In 1997 he was honored with the Medal of Merit of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists and the Commemorative Medal of Charles University in Prague . In 2002 he received the Ritter von Gerstner Medal . Further honors were the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 1998 and the Liebieg Medal from the Reichenberg home district in Augsburg in 1999 . In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Viên Toán Hoc, Hanoi, from the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture.

Others

In publications and lectures, Bulirsch has made a name for himself in memory of the great mathematician Constantin Carathéodory (1873–1950).

According to students' assessments, Roland Bulirsch's lectures were very graphic without neglecting mathematical accuracy. He liked to demonstrate solutions he created on Sun computers for complex systems of differential equations , which he converted into films. This included, for example, the trajectories of space probes or the driving behavior of an automobile, which he calculated on behalf of the Audi company .

Publication / Editorships

Roland Bulirsch is co-editor of the journal Numerische Mathematik and the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Mathematical Modeling . Together with Josef Stoer he wrote one of the standard works on numerical mathematics. The two volumes are the result of mathematics lectures. It deals with eigenvalue problems, ordinary differential equations and iteration methods for solving large linear systems of equations.

  • with Josef Stoer : Introduction to numerical analysis , 3rd edition, Springer 2002
  • with Stoer: Numerical Mathematics , 2 volumes, Springer, Vol. 1, 10th edition 2007 (edited by Roland Freund, Ronald Hoppe), Vol. 2, 5th edition 2005 (first published in 1973 by Springer in the series Heidelberger Taschenbücher)
  • with Heinz Rutishauser Interpolation and approximate quadrature and representation of functions in the calculator , in Robert Sauer , Istvan Szabo The mathematical tools of the engineer , Volume 3, Springer Verlag 1968

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personal data
SURNAME Bulirsch, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bulirsch, Roland Zdeněk (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia