Wolfgang Boehm (mathematician)

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Wolfgang Boehm (Böhm) (born May 12, 1928 in Danzig ; † May 1, 2018 ) was a German mathematician .

Life

Boehm studied, did his doctorate and completed his habilitation at the TU Berlin . In 1965 he accepted a position at the Technical University of Braunschweig . He was a co-founder of Computer Aided Geometric Design (short: CAGD ) in Germany and was visiting professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy , at the University of Northwest China in Xi'an and the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas . He was the co-founder and senior editor of the international magazine CAGD and has been retired since the mid-1990s.

meaning

Wolfgang Boehm was one of the international pioneers of CAGD and geometric modeling . He was the author of several basic works and articles on applied geometry and geometry in CAD ; his monographs have seen several editions and translations. Boehm's book on geometric concepts sensitively teaches geometric thinking as every mathematician or engineer should have known. As early as 1952 he gave a surprisingly simple geometric proof of the thread construction for surfaces of the second order. In 1980 he discovered that the de Boor algorithm can also insert nodes.

Boehm is regarded as the scientific discoverer of Paul de Casteljau , whose work became the scientific basis for the representation of curves and surfaces in industrial production ( numerical control ). In 1993 he discovered JCF Haase as the forerunner of the recursive construction algorithm for rational Bézier curves .

Publications

  • The thread construction of the second order surfaces. Thesis. TU Berlin 1952.
  • Wolfgang Böhm et al .: Introduction to the methods of numerical mathematics. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1977 (Chinese translation: Ministry of Education and Science, Beijing 1987).
  • Inserting new knots into B-spline curves, computer-aided design. 12, 1980, pp. 199-291.
  • Wolfgang Boehm et al .: A survey of curve and surface methods in CAGD. In: Comput. Aided Geom. Des. 1, 1984, pp. 1-60.
  • with Hartmut Prautzsch, methods of numerical mathematics. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1985 (English translation: Numerical methods. Peters, Wellesley, MA 1993 and Universities Press, Hyderabad 2005 and 2009).
  • An affine representation of de Casteljau's and de Boor's rational algorithms. In: Comput. Aided Geom. Des. 10, 1993, pp. 175-180.
  • with Hartmut Prautzsch, Geometric concepts for geometric design. Peters, Wellesley, MA 1994.
  • with Andreas Müller, On de Casteljau's algorithm. In: Comput. Aided Geom. Des .. 16, 1999, pp. 587-605.
  • with Hartmut Prautzsch et al .: Bézier and B-spline techniques. Springer, Berlin 2002 (Spanish translation: Métodos de Bézier y B-splines. Univ.-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2005).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Böhm: Obituary notice, Wolfenbütteler Zeitung. Retrieved May 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://www.cagd.cs.tu-bs.de/boehm2.html
personal data
SURNAME Boehm, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohm, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH 1st May 2018