Walter Gander

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Walter Gander (born May 24, 1944 in Saanen ) is a Swiss mathematician and computer scientist who deals with numerical mathematics . He is a professor at the ETH Zurich .

Life

Gander studied at the ETH Zurich with a diploma in 1968 and was assistant to Heinz Rutishauser at his institute for computer science. In 1973 he received his doctorate under Peter Henrici at the ETH Zurich (numerical implementations of Romberg's extrapolation method, with applications to the summation of infinite series). From 1973 to 1987 he was professor for numerical mathematics and computer science at the Neu-Technikum Buchs . In 1977/78 he was a visiting scientist at Stanford University (as in 1984, 1993, 2006) and in 1979 he completed his habilitation at ETH Zurich. In 1987 he became assistant professor and in 1991 professor of computer science at the ETH Zurich, where he retired in 2009. From 1989 to 1997 he was head of the Institute for Scientific Computing and from 1990 to 1992 and 1997 to 2001 he was head of the computer science faculty. From 1989 to 1991 he was head of the Swiss Supercomputer Initiative, which led to the establishment of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center .

He is mainly concerned with numerical linear algebra and scientific computing. He also dealt with computer science lessons in schools.

Fonts

  • Computational math. Birkhäuser, 2nd edition 1992.
  • Computer mathematics, solutions of the tasks with PASCAL programs. Birkhäuser 1986.
  • with J. Hrebicek (editor): Solving Problems in Scientific Computing using Maple and Matlab. Springer 1993, 4th edition 2004.
  • with Martin J. Gander , Felix Kwok: Scientific Computing - An Introduction using Maple and MATLAB. Springer 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1998 Gander also published writings from Birkhäuser's estate from Rutishauser.
  2. Walter Gander in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used