Günter Meinardus
Günter Meinardus (born June 11, 1926 in Bremen ; † June 11, 2007 ) was a German mathematician.
Life
Meinardus received his doctorate in number theory under Carl Ludwig Siegel at the University of Göttingen in 1953 (on the partition problem of a real-square number field) and completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1959. He taught in Clausthal, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Siegen and Mannheim.
He is known for contributions to approximation theory , specifically nonlinear approximation and splines .
He was an associate editor of the Journal of Approximation Theory.
Meinardus was a member of the Leopoldina .
Fonts
- Approximation of functions: Theory and Numerical Methods, Springer 1967
literature
- Günther Nürnberger: In memoriam Günter Meinardus (1926-2007), Journal of Approximation Theory, Volume 162, 2010, pp. 1-5, pdf
Web links
- Günter Meinardus in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry of Günter Meinardus at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 15, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinardus, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 2007 |