Rudolf Gorenflo
Rudolf Gorenflo (born July 31, 1930 in Friedrichstal ; † October 20, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician who dealt with analysis and numerical mathematics and was a professor at the Free University of Berlin .
Life
Rudolf Gorenflo studied mathematics and physics at the TH Karlsruhe from 1950 with his diploma in 1956 and received his doctorate in 1960 under Hans Wittich with a dissertation on the theory of functions ( on the Wiman-Valiron power series comparison method and its application in the theory of all transcendent functions ). He was an assistant in Karlsruhe from 1957 to 1961 and was with Standard Elektrik Lorenz in Stuttgart for one year 1961/62 and acquired practical knowledge of computer science and computers. From 1962 to 1970 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching near Munich , where he dealt with computer simulations. In 1970 he completed his habilitation in mathematics at RWTH Aachen University . In 1971 he became a professor in Aachen, which he was until 1973. In 1972 he was visiting professor at Heidelberg University . From 1973 he was Professor (C4) at the Free University of Berlin. 1982 to 1989 he was director of the third mathematical institute. In 1998 he retired, but remained scientifically active.
In 1995 he was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. From 1979 to 1984 he was chairman of the Berlin Mathematical Society and then deputy chairman until 1988. On June 24, 2011, the Berlin Mathematical Society organized a celebratory colloquium on Gorenflo's 80th birthday.
Among other things, he dealt with Abel’s integral equations , inverse problems in geophysics, among other things, discretization of parabolic partial differential equations (used in heat conduction) and, from the 1990s, with fractional differential equations, the order of which the derivation is a non-integer rational number, for example in fractional diffusion and in the theory of the Mittag-Leffler function . He worked with Francesco Mainardi from the University of Bologna and was founding editor of Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis .
He had been married since 1959 and had two sons and a daughter.
Fonts
- with Sergio Vessella: Abel integral equations: Analysis and Applications, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1461, Springer 1991
- with Francesco Mainardi: Fractional Calculus, in: A. Carpinteri, F. Mainardi (Eds.), Fractals and Fractional Calculus in Continuum Mechanics, Springer 1997, pp. 223–276, Arxiv (CISM Course, Udine 1996)
- with Dang Dinh Ang, Vy Khoi Le, Dang Duc Trong: Moment Theory and Some Inverse Problems in Potential Theory and Heat Conduction, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1792, Springer 2002
- with Anatoly A. Kilbas, Francesco Mainardi, Sergei V. Rogosin: Mittag-Leffler Functions, Related Topics and Applications: Theory and Applications, Springer 2014
Web links
- Appreciation at the Berlin Mathematical Society
- Literature by and about Rudolf Gorenflo in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Gorenflo in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gorenflo, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stutensee |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th October 2017 |
| Place of death | Berlin |