Gerhard Wanner (mathematician)

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Gerhard Wanner, Oberwolfach 2006

Gerhard Wanner (* 1942 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian mathematician .

Wanner grew up in Seefeld in Tyrol and studied mathematics at the University of Innsbruck , where he received his doctorate in 1965 under Wolfgang Gröbner (a contribution to the numerical treatment of boundary value problems of ordinary differential equations). He taught in Innsbruck and from 1973 at the University of Geneva .

Wanner deals with numerics of ordinary differential equations (about which he wrote a two-volume monograph with Ernst Hairer ) and is the author of an analysis textbook (and a geometry textbook) that uses the historical-genetic method . In 2015 he received the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition.

He was president of the Swiss Mathematical Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • With Ernst Hairer : Analysis in the historical development. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-13766-2 (previously in English as: Analysis by Its History. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2008).
  • With Alexander Ostermann : Geometry by Its History. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-29162-3 .
  • With Ernst Hairer, Christian Lubich : Geometric Numerical Integration: Structure-Preserving Algorithms for Ordinary Differential Equations. 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05157-9 .
  • With Ernst Hairer, Sylvert Nørsett : Solving Ordinary Differential Equations I. 3., corrected reprint. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-05163-0 .
  • With Ernst Hairer, Sylvert Nørsett : Solving Ordinary Differential Equations II. 2nd edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 978-3-642-05220-0 .
  • Integration of ordinary differential equations: Lie series (with programs), Runge-Kutta methods. BI university paperbacks. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Zurich 1969.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information in his essay Elementary Evidence of Morley's Theorem, Elements of Mathematics, Volume 59, 2004, p. 144.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Wanner in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Wanner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck