Peter Deuflhard

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Peter Jochen Deuflhard (born May 3, 1944 in Dorfen , Upper Bavaria; † September 22, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German applied mathematician .

Life

After a diploma in physics at the Technical University of Munich and a doctorate in mathematics with Roland Bulirsch on Newton's method at the University of Cologne , Deuflhard completed his habilitation in 1977 at the Technical University of Munich with a thesis on shooting methods . In 1978 he accepted a professorship for numerical mathematics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . From 1986 he was Professor of Scientific Computing at the Free University of Berlin and also founder and director of the Zuse Institute Berlin .

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Peter Deuflhard's main areas of activity and research were numerical mathematics and mathematical modeling, with a focus on medical technology, biotechnology and chemical process engineering. He was one of the founders of the DFG research center MATHEON , in which all Berlin universities and mathematical research institutes are involved.

In the course of his work he was awarded the Gerhard Damköhler Medal in 1994 (for fundamental work on chemical reaction engineering), an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva and in 2007 the ICIAM Maxwell Prize for fundamental contributions to applied mathematics. From 2001 Deuflhard was a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW).

Peter Deuflhard was co-editor of several international mathematical journals. His books Numerical Mathematics I and II are among the standard textbooks on numerical mathematics in German-speaking countries.

Fonts

  • With A. Hohmann: Numerical Mathematics I. An Algorithmically Oriented Introduction , 3rd revised and expanded edition, de Gruyter: Berlin, New York (2002)
  • With F. Bornemann : Numerische Mathematik II. Ordinary differential equations , 2nd completely revised and expanded edition, de Gruyter: Berlin, New York (2002)
  • With F. Bornemann: Scientific Computing with Ordinary Differential Equations. Springer, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-387-21582-2 .
  • Newton Methods for Nonlinear Problems. Affine Invariance and Adaptive Algorithms , Second printed edition. Series Computational Mathematics 35, Springer (2006)
  • With M. Weiser: Numerical Mathematics III. Adaptive solution of partial differential equations , 1st edition, de Gruyter: Berlin (2011)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, accessed September 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Deuflhard, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorfen , Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2019
Place of death Berlin