Holger Wendland (mathematician)

Holger Wendland (* 1968 ) is a German mathematician who deals with numerical mathematics and is professor for applied and numerical analysis at the University of Bayreuth .

Wendland studied mathematics from 1989 onwards at the University of Göttingen , where he obtained his diploma in 1994 and received his doctorate summa cum laude in numerical mathematics under Robert Schaback in 1996 (dissertation: Constructions and investigation of radial basis functions with compact support ). He then continued his research in Göttingen, completed his habilitation there in 2002 and received a professorship in Göttingen from 2002. In the winter semester 2005/06 he taught at the TU Dresden, was from 2006 reader and from 2007 Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sussex and from 2009 Professor at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Exeter College in Oxford. From 2012 he was a professor in Bayreuth.

He deals with interpolation and approximation , among other things with gridless methods of approximation of functions (method of radial basis functions, RBF) with application to the solution of various aero- and hydrodynamic problems. Together with Robert Schaback, he wrote a numerical mathematics textbook that is widely used in German-speaking countries.

Fonts

• Scattered Data Approximation, Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, Paperback 2010
• with Robert Schaback: Numerical Mathematics, Springer, 5th edition, 2005
• with Robert Schaback: Kernel Techniques: From machine learning to meshless methods, Acta Numerica, Volume 15, 2006, pp. 1-97

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Wendland in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)