Gerhard Maeß

Gerhard Siegfried Werner Maeß (born October 27, 1937 in Magdeburg ; † June 25, 2016 ) was a German mathematician and university professor in the field of numerical mathematics .

Life

Gerhard Maeß graduated from high school in Magdeburg in 1955 and then studied mathematics and a minor in physics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . After graduating in 1960, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . At the Humboldt University of Berlin , he was in 1965 with a thesis on autonomous quantitative method for the determination of periodic solutions of nonlinear differential equations for Dr. rer. nat. PhD.

Afterwards he was a lecturer there until 1970. He was also a part-time editor at the Zentralblatt für Mathematik .

Since 1970 he has been a university lecturer at the University of Rostock and completed his habilitation in 1976 on the iterative solution of linear systems of equations for Dr. sc. nat. In 1980 he was appointed professor for numerical mathematics . In 2003 he retired.

Maeß was rector of the University of Rostock from 1990 to 1998 . From 2000 to 2004 he was ombudsman . He was committed to the German-Japanese Society and to musical life in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Honors

Ordre des Palmes Académiques , Officier (1993)
Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (October 15, 1998)
Medal of Honor of the Agricultural University Debrecen (1998)
Book of Honor of the Hanseatic City of Rostock (1998)
Culture Prize of the Hanseatic City of Rostock (1999)
Honorary Senator of the University of Rostock (1999)

Honorary positions

1990–1994 Science Council
1990–1998 University Rectors ' Conference (Senate, Standing Commission for Structural Planning)
1990–1998 Senate of the Max Planck Society
from 1990 member of the board of the association for the promotion of a German research network
from 1990 founding, board and administrative committee member of the Society of Sponsors of the University of Rostock
1991–1998 member of the board of trustees of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

Advisory Boards

1996–2001 Institute for University Research Wittenberg
2002–2006 HRK Foundation
Friends of the Rostock Volkstheater

Fonts

with Helmut Kiesewetter: Elementary methods of numerical mathematics . Berlin and Vienna 1974.
Lectures on numerical mathematics . Berlin and Basel 1984 and 1988
with Gerlind Birke and Raimond Strauss: Computer graphics . Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-464-57370-2

literature

Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1995
Short biography for: Maeß, Gerhard Siegfried Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Ingrid Rieck: Mourning for Professor Gerhard Maeß. University of Rostock, press release of July 2, 2016 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on July 2, 2016.
↑ Doctorate A : Quantitative Methods for Determining Periodic Solutions of Autonomous Nonlinear Differential Equations .
↑ Doctorate B : Iterative solution of linear systems of equations .
↑ Office of the Federal President

personal data
SURNAME	Maeß, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maeß, Gerhard Siegfried Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 25, 2016

[1] Ingrid Rieck: Mourning for Professor Gerhard Maeß. University of Rostock, press release of July 2, 2016 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on July 2, 2016.

[2] Doctorate A : Quantitative Methods for Determining Periodic Solutions of Autonomous Nonlinear Differential Equations .

[3] Doctorate B : Iterative solution of linear systems of equations .

[4] Office of the Federal President