Wolfgang Dahmen

Wolfgang A. Dahmen (born 19 October 1949 in Linnich ) is a German mathematician and Taekwondo.

Career as an athlete

In May 1975 Wolfgang Dahmen scored the only victory for the German national team in taekwondo meet against Korea. Finally, in the fall, he was able to win the vice-world champion in WTF Taekwondo in Seoul. In the aftermath Dahmen was instrumental in the training of the German national team and reached the 3rd place at the 1976 European Championships.

Mathematical career

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

Dahmen 2001 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 primarily in the fields of approximation theory, wavelets and multivariate splines. An important issue is the solution of partial differential equations.