Wolfgang Dahmen (mathematician)

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Wolfgang Dahmen, Oberwolfach 2004

Wolfgang Anton Dahmen (born October 19, 1949 in Linnich , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German mathematician and Taekwondo athlete.

Career as an athlete

In May 1975 Wolfgang Dahmen scored the only victory for the German national team in the international Taekwondo match against South Korea . In the fall he was finally able to win the vice world title in WTF Taekwondo in Seoul . In the following years Dahmen was significantly involved in the training of the German national team and in 1976 reached 3rd place at the European Championships .

Mathematical career

Dahmen studied mathematics at RWTH Aachen University and received his doctorate there in the same subject. In 1981 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn and in the same year became professor at the University of Bielefeld . In 1987 he accepted an appointment at the Free University of Berlin and has been back at RWTH Aachen University since 1992 as the successor to Rolf Jeltsch . In 1994 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich ( Multiscale techniques - some concepts and perspectives ).

In 2001 Dahmen was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 2002 Wolfgang Dahmen received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . Since 2005 he has also been an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina . In 2009 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Dahmen works mainly in the areas of approximation theory , wavelets and multivariate splines . An important topic is the solution of partial differential equations .

Fonts

  • with Arnold Reusken: Numerics for engineers and natural scientists. Springer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-540-25544-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Laudation on the awarding of the Leibniz Prize (pdf; 11 kB)
  2. Member entry of Wolfgang Dahmen (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 14, 2016.