Gerhard Wanner

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Gerhard Wanner, Oberwolfach 2006

Gerhard Wanner (born 1942 in Innsbruck)[1] is an Austrian mathematician.

Education and career

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Wanner grew up in Seefeld in Tirol and studied mathematics at the University of Innsbruck, where he received his doctorate in 1965 with advisor Wolfgang Gröbner and dissertation Ein Beitrag zur numerischen Behandlung von Randwertproblemen gewöhnlicher Differentialgleichungen (A contribution to the numerical treatment of boundary value problems of ordinary differential equations).[2] He taught in Innsbruck and from 1973 at the University of Geneva.

Wanner's research deals with numerical analysis of ordinary differential equations (about which he wrote a two-volume monograph with Ernst Hairer). Wanner is the co-author of an analysis undergraduate textbook and a geometry undergraduate textbook, both of which give historically oriented explanations of mathematics.

In 2003 he was awarded, jointly with Ernst Hairer, the Peter Henrici Prize. In 2015 Wanner received SIAM's George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition.[3]

He was president of the Swiss Mathematical Society from 1998 to 1999.

Selected publications

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Articles

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  • Hairer, E.; Wanner, G. (1973). "Multistep-multistage-multiderivative methods for ordinary differential equations". Computing. 11 (3): 287–303. doi:10.1007/BF02252917. ISSN 0010-485X.
  • Hairer, E.; Wanner, G. (1975). "A theory for Nyström methods". Numerische Mathematik. 25 (4): 383–400. doi:10.1007/BF01396335. ISSN 0029-599X.
  • Hairer, E.; Wanner, G. (1981). "Algebraically Stable and Implementable Runge-Kutta Methods of High Order". SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. 18 (6): 1098–1108. doi:10.1137/0718074. ISSN 0036-1429.
  • Hairer, Ernst; Wanner, Gerhard (1999). "Stiff differential equations solved by Radau methods". Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 111 (1–2): 93–111. doi:10.1016/S0377-0427(99)00134-X. ISSN 0377-0427.
  • Hairer, E.; Lubich, C.; Wanner, G. (2003). "Geometric numerical integration illustrated by the Stormer-Verlet method". Acta Numerica. 12 (12): 399–450. doi:10.1017/S0962492902000144. ISBN 9780521825238.
  • Gander, Martin J.; Wanner, Gerhard (2012). "From Euler, Ritz, and Galerkin to Modern Computing". SIAM Review. 54 (4): 627–666. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.297.5697. doi:10.1137/100804036. ISSN 0036-1445.

Books

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References

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  1. ^ biographical preface to Wanner's article Elementare Beweise des Satzes von Morley, Elemente der Mathematik, vol. 59, 2004, p. 144.
  2. ^ Gerhard Wanner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
  4. ^ Hunacek, Mark (13 June 2012). "Review of Geometry by Its History by Alexander Ostermann and Gerhard Wanner". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
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